Sentinel News-Boy. (Sentinel, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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The Sentinel News-Boy.
BT WILL W. HORN BECK.
SENTINEL, - . . OKLA.
CONCERNING THE NEW STATE
The Bank of Talala, with a capital
stock of $10,000, has been authorized
to begin business.
Carrie Nation paid Oklahoma City
her second visit within a month last
week.
Every city of any. size in the two
territories are sending delegates to
Washington to take a hand in the
statehood fight.
Jonas Field, a miner employed in
Smithton mine No. 2, near South Mc
Alester, was killed instantly last
week. The cable broke, allowing
the cars to run down a slope, crush
ing him against a wall.
The Katy Railway company his let
the contract for the new union depot
at South McAlester. The new build
Ing is to cost $38,000, and will be
used jointly by the Katy and the Rock
Island companies.
The socialists of Oklahoma and In-
dian Territories held a two days' ses-
sion In Guthrie last week. The ob-
ject was to formulate a general or-
ganization for the two territories.
Henry Bunn was acquitted in the
district court at Tecumseh of mur-
dering his niece's husband, Ernest
Bucey. The killing occurred last
summer in a dispute over crops, Bucn
killing Bucey with a shotgun.
The dates for examination for ter-
riorial teachers' certificates for Okla-
homa have been announced for July
12, 13 and 14, 1905. The periods
were named for holding county teach-
ers' institutes. The first period ends
June 29 and 30; the second August
10 and 11.
Judge Burwell, at Oklahoma City,
sentenced W. T. Allen, convicted of
wife murder, to life imprisonment.
The crime was committed. July 7,
1903. and the defendant set up a plea
of insanity, to which the jury gave
little consideration.
Three separate holdups occurred In
Oklahoma City last Friday night,
each being pulled off in different
parts of the city. One of the victims
was compelled to give up $45, besides
other belongings, consisting of a
watch and chain. Very little was se-
cured from the other victims.
REMOVAL OF RESTRICTION
Latest Bill Along Thi« Line Prepare-
by Senator Stone
MUSKOGEE: The latest bill pre-
pared along the removal of restriction
problem is by Senator Stone of Mis-
souri. Undet this bill homesteads of
forty acres are assigned to each al
lottee o be selected by him from the
lands a'loted to him within six
months after the passage of this bill,
if the allottee fails or refuses to make
his selection within the fixed time the
Indian agent for Indian Territory is
directed to make the selection arbi-
trarily.
The allotted lands, under the bill,
are to be appraised in forty-acre
tracts by the Indian agent and the
registrai and receiver of the district
in which the lands located, subject to
the approval of the secretary of the
interior.
Any citizen of the United States
may purchase land with the consent
of the allottee in tracts of not ex-
ceeding 1G0 acres each.
A provision of the bill which will
create some stir to inhabitants of In
dian Territory is that all moneys re-
ceived from the sale of lands shall be
paid to the Indian or freedman en-
titled to the same.
Senator Stone thinks that the In
dians and freedmen are able to take
care of their own business and that
they should be paid all moneys due
them into their hands and released
from the guardianship of Uncle Sam.
This bill is not looked upon serious-
ly here, as no one dares to hope that
any such luck will befall Indian Terri-
tory, so all the energy possible will
be concentrated on the passage of the
Hamilton statehood bill for Indiar
Territory along with Oklahoma.
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE NEW STATE
Hems of Interest Gathered with Special Reference to the Wishes
of Our Numerous Readers in Oklahoma and Indian Territories
PAY TAXES BY TELEPHONE
Guests at a dinner party at the
home of J. N. Coulter, near Kellar,
ate poison in an unknown manner
Several are in a serious condition.
El Reno has a man named Nell
Evans who, on Christmas day, round
ed out fifty years as a retail salesman
behind the counter. He began at
Fort Arbuckle that long ago. and has
been in the two territories ever since.
A deal has been consummated, by
the terras of which the Pioneer Tele-
phone company, of Indian Territory,
takes over all the property of the
Chickasaw-Choctaw Telephone com-
pany. Including four local exchanges,
and 125 miles of toll lines. This
gives the Pioneer company control of
practically all the telephones In the
territories.
Hickory County, Missouri, Farmers
Have Agreement with Collector
SPRINGFIELD, MO.: In Hickory
county. Missouri, the county collector
lias inaugurated the novel system of
using the rural telephone for gather-
ing in the annual tax. Hermitage,
the county seat, has no railroad facili-
ties and the country roads rocky and
billy, are almost impassable in bad
weather, making the trip to town ex-
tremely tedious. To lessen the dis-
advantages, arrangements have been
made with the telephone companies
which have lines branching in every
direction from Hermitage, by which
the would be taxpayer can settle with-
out making the long ride. He has the
operator ascertain from the collec-
tor's office the amount of his assess-
ment and pays over to the telephone
man the amount demanded. The
operator notifies the collector and the
money and the receipt for it are start-
ed for their respective designations
on the following mails.
" Fifteen cents Is the charge made by
the telephone companies for their
services. The plan is In successful
operation from the remotest parts of
the county and saves many a long and
tedious journey.
EXPENSES DECREASING
Amount Required to Operate School
Land Board Has Fallen Off
GUTHRIE: "The total expense of
operating the school land department
during the year just closed will be
less than $21,000," said Fred L. Wen-
ner, secretary of that department,
"and I believe that is a record break-
er." Mr. Wenner was speaking of
the several bills that will likely be in-
troduced for the legislature to act
upon, and he made this statement to
show that the department was being
run on a systematic and inexpensive
basis.
It is said that the total expense of
the office for the year is but 5% per
cent of the entire office receipts. This
covers all the office expense, as well
as that of the men in the field.
Recently Mr. Wenner closed his
work among the lessees, hearing com-
plaints on the rental valuation of the
lands and adjusting matters wherever
possible. He found the ocnditions
good, he says, and the lessees in a
better spirit generally than hereto-
fore. In regard to this matter a
well known lessee stated that as a
rule the men occupying school land
have faith in the work of Mr. Wen-
ner, and believe he will do what he
can to give them equitable treat-
ment.
An idea of the amount of work In
this office is given by the report of
Mr. Wenner, which says: "Doing
business with nearly 8,000 lessees,
collecting rentals avaraging $1,000 a
day, looking after the protection of
the lands, preventing timber depreda-
tions, settling and adjusting the many
difficulties and controversies that
come up almost daily, classifying and
appraising the lands and issuing new
leases on the same every three years,
makes this one of the largest and
most important departments of the
territory."
CONSTABLE8 ARE HELD
ADDICKS TO VISIT OIL FIELD
Warren Richard Dent, 61 years of
age. once a wealthy railroad con-
tractor in Kansas, committed suicide
at Enid, and his body was burled by
the county. It Is supposed that rela
tlves of the dead man live In SL
Louis.
Delaware Man to Pay Second Visit
to Investigate
LAWTON: R. B. Sanders of this
city has received a communication
from J. Edward Addicks of Delaware
that the senator or his representative
would visit the gas and oil fields of
this vicinity at an early date with a
view tc investigate. Little less than
a year ago Mr. Addicks visited Law-
ton and registered at the hotels as
Edward Sullivan. He spent four days
here and made a thorough investiga-
tion of the gas and oil properties, de-
parting saying that at a later date he
would return and make Investments.
Mr. Addicks presented Mr. Sanders,
who is assistant chief of police here,
with a fine revolver.
TELEPHONES FOR FARMERS
An Extensive System Will be Con
structed In Greer County
MANGUM: Greer county farmers
are making a house to house canvass
In an attempt to establish a line of
communication by telephone. A mu-
tual telephone company has been or-
ganized and officered, and the work of
putting in 'phones is now in progress.
The line will reach over the entire
county, and it is said that a 'phone
will be placed in every farmer's home
In the county.
Greer is not so thickly settled as
are some other counties in the terri-
tory, and the luxury, and even neces-
sity, of the telephone has been rea-
lized by the farmers. The cost of
the establishment and maintenance
of the line is trifling compared with
the service it is proposed to furnish,
each farmer contributing so much to
a general fund for the benefit of the
enterpiise.
The Deeds Are Being Delivered
MUSKOGEE: Green McCurtain,
chief of the Choctaw nation, and J. H.
Johnson, chief of the Chickasaw na-
tion, have announced that they will
begin at once to deliver deeds to In-
dians for the lands alloted them.
There are 6,000 such holders, the
chiefs having refused for a year to
deliver the deeds in an effort to pre-
vent their people from disposing of
the land. The chiefs have not wholly
surrendered to the government, for
they declare they will deliver the
deeds without sending them to Wash-
ington for the signature of the secre-
tary of the interior. The controversy
involves 4,000,000 acres of land.
They Are Charged With Having Mur-
dered a Justice of the Peace
SHAWNEE: The killing of Lee
Ginn at McComb, a small town on
the Santa Fe road, south of here, is
thought to have been premeditated
murder, and two men, John Mitchell
and James Yendell, both of whom
are constables at that place, are held
without bond, by order of a coroner's
jury. It is said that Ginn, who was
formerly a justice of the peace, had
trouble with both constables, and it
is alleged they were determined to do
him bodily harm. As a result of the
difference with the constables Gkin
is said to have been in the habit of
carrying a revolver. On the day
of the killing the constables in-
formed Deputy Sheriff Louman that
Gtan was armed. The deputy went
with them to arrest Ginn. When
questioned by the deputy sheriff Ginn
produced the weapon and flourished
it in front of him, but is said to have
made no further demonstration. The
two constables fired on Ginn, and he
was so badly Injured that he died
within a few hours. Sheriff Grace
was called, and he arrested Mitchell
at once, but had a chase after Yen-
dell. Both prisoners declare they
believed Ginn was about to kill them,
but the officers believe differently.
THE WORK COMPLETED
Citizenship Court Has Finished Its
Labors and Records Turned Over
MUSKOGEE: The Dawes commis-
sion has been notified that the citi-
zenship court has finished Its work
in the Choctaw and Chickasaw na-
tions. The court has been ordered
to turn over to the Dawes commission
all records and all property in its
possession. The records of the court,
filled a freight car, and these have
been shipped from Tishomingo to
Muskogee.
The property which the court had
in its possession consisted principally
of a large law library and consider-
able office furniture. All of this will
be given room in the offices of the
Dawes ^commission. The members
of the commission will be especially
glad to receive the law library, for
which a great deal of use can be
found.
The records of the court date back
to the time the cases heard were or-
iginally tried before the Dawes com-
mission, including the federal court
record on the cases appealed from the
Dawes commission, and will make a
complete record in the commission of
all such cases since application for
admission was made in 1896.
Reform 8chool Agitation
GUTHRIE: Mrs. A. C. Scott, presi-
dent of the Oklahoma federation of
women's clubs, is mailing a circular
letter to all club women asking that
they urge upon the coming legislature
the necessity for reform school legis-
lation. Each club will name a special
committee to visit the legislature,
while In session, and ask favorable
action.
Youthful criminals are now impris-
oned with adults at Lansing. Gov.
Ferguson and the seven members of
the supreme court have endorsed the
women's plan.
Oklahoma Horticultural 8ociety
GUTHRIE: Secretary J. B. Tho-
burn of the Territorial Board of Agri-
culture has announced that the an-
nual session of the Oklahoma Horti-
cultural society would be held in
Shawnee on January 18 and 19.
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