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Claremore Progress.
AND ROGERS COUNTY DEMOCRAT
VOL. XVII.
CLAREMORE. OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909.
No 46
DON'T BE A KNOCKER
Help Your Oounty
Help Your Town
Help Youroelvee
Wu have helped otheri'vWo can liolp you with
this complete lino:
Carpenter# Tools
Meat Chopperx
Wringers
Grind Btouos
Oils and Varnishes
humpH
' Kitchen UtoiiHiU
Butcher Knives
Bad Irons
Washing Machines
(llttHH, Paints
Electric Light Bulbs
Btovos
Cutlery
Rifles, Guns and Ammunition.
Glasgow Hdw. Co.
Next door to First National Bank
Agents for Celebrated Quick Meal iRanges snd Quick Comfort Heaters
WILL CONTINUE
I have concluded to continue for a
few days more my cyclone sale, and
invite those in need of clothing or
shoes to come in and look at the rare
bargains I am offering in order to
clean up the stock. You can supply
your needs here for the coming year
with a very little money. Better
stop in and investigate my offerings.
After you do this you will be con-
vinced it's an evil wind that blows
nobody any good.
Wm. Taylor
Next Door to Thecson's tBakery
. LITTLEF1ELD, Secretary
P. H. BOYD. President
Rogers County Abstract Co.
V * (Ineomntad.)
(Incorporated.)
The title conditions in this country at this time make it the
better part of prudence to secure an abstract from a respon-
sible concern when buying property. We offer our services
and solicit your business. Conveyancing a specialty. Notary
Public in office.
Ground Floor, Xt ore Bldg, Claremore, Ok
a b. LimxmtLD c. w. unump
FM-udSuMV S«miw*
Littlefield Loan and Investment Co.
CLAREMORE, OKLAHOMA
Office Honrs 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
C. B. Littlefield, Manager
W. E. B UXTN
LIVERY
Good Bigt and Nice Driving Hurtes
Stable in reai First national Bank
Your Patronage Solicited
Barn Phone 185 Rra. Phone 283
fAIMKRV MKKTINGti.
Notice is hereby given for the hold-
ing of the annual meeting of the County
Farmers' Institute in tho counting
named below. One-day meeting* will
be held at esch place. The forenoon
tension will begin at 10 o'clock snd the
afternoon session at 1:80. The Ins'i-
lute will be held rsin or Rhine. The
counties are arranged in itineraries to
ssve time and expense and It will not
be convenient to change dates.
State lecturers will oe prunent todls-
eusa aubjectaof interest to farmer* snd
business men. Foraire crops, cereal
crops, and the Live Stock Industry ami
Dairy subjects will be made a specialty
in all the Inatitutes throughout the
state. Farmers are urged to bring
their wives and children and attend
these meetings. Discussions on Do-
mestic Science will be given for the
benefit of the ladles.
a full set of officers will be elected,
also a delegate to represent the county
at the annual institute to be held in
Stillwater tho second Tuesday in Aug.,
MHO. Tho meeting will be free and
open to everybody. Below are dates
' places of Institutes:
[owata, Nowata, January 20.
A. L. ROBINS
OSCAR G. BEAR
ROBINS & BEAR
Loans
Real Estate Insurance
Loans Made Promptly. Sale for All Good Land in Rogers
County at Reasonable Prices
Insurance Placcd in Best Companies
Inita, February 1. "
Creek, February 3.
Rogers, Claremore, January 81.
Craig, Vinita, ~ '
Wagoner,^Wagoner,' February 4.
Tulsa, Broken Arrow, February 11.
Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture,
J. P. Connors, President.
John C. Elliott,
Superimendent Farmers' Institutes.
POOR FATHER.
Children, hushl for father's resting;
he is sitting, tired and sore, with his
feet upon the table and his hat upon
the floor. He is wearied and exhausted
by the labora of the day; he has talked
about the tariff since the dawn was
cold and gray; he has lost eight games
of checkers, for his luck today was
mean, and thst luck was still against
him when he bucked the slot machine;
so his nerves are under tension, and his
brow is dark with csre, and the bur-
dens laid upon his seem too great for
him to bear. Stop the clock, for it
annoys him; trottfe that canary bird;
take the baby to the cellar, where it's
howling won't be heard; you must
speak in whispers, children, for your
father's tired and sore, and he seems
to think the ceiling is some kind of
cuspidor. Oh, he's broken down and
beaten by the long and busy day; he's
been sitting in the feed store on a bale
of prairie hay, telling how the hungry
grafters have the country by the throat,
how the tariff on dried apples robs the
poor man of his coat, how this nasty
polar rumpus might be settled once for
all—and his feet are on the table, and
hia back'a against the wall; let him And
hia home a quiet and a heart-consoling
nest, for the father's worn and weary,
and his spirit longs for rest.-Walt
Mason.
THAT ANNUAL INDIAN EXODUS.
Every now and then, possibly as often
as once a year, some genius with an
appetite for imagery starts the story
of the Indians selling their property
and moving to Mexico—sometimes there
ia an account of millions of acres "pur-
chased in the mountains fastnessnes
and agents are dickering for still more
acres/' seldom less than half the lands
of Mexico. The idea probably started
with Sequoyah long since gathered to
the Great Spirit, who waa angry with
the Cherokees taking up with the ways
of the white man and who did seek to
lead his people where they would be
more to themselves and not intermarry.
But even Sequoyah could not shake
the Indians loose from their present
place of abode. The Indian loves his
home in what is now Eastern Oklahoma
and he has wealth for his children and
himself. He has also played a part in
the creation of the new state and is
Btill a mighty factor in our public
affairs. Among the faces seen in a
picture of the constitutional conven-
tion delegates are numerous sons of the
red man; the legislature saw them tak-
ing a leading part-one ia in the senate
of the United States, another in the
National house of representatives.
Oklahoma saw the passing of the red
man from the ways of centuries, and
when the new state came into being,
it waa aa the hope and home of all who
love liberty and equal rights.
The tale about the Indians leaving
Oklahoma in any large body is a mere
piece of foolish imagery. As some
white men go to Canada, New Mexico
or elaewhere in the hope of bettering
conditions so, too, will there be red
men do likewise, but not as a race
aeeking the lesaer or younger civiliza-
tion. The great Cherokee educational
institutions turned over to the state at
Tahlequah ia the beat evidence that the
white and red men have formed a union
indiaaohible in Oklahoma.
That old dispatch shouk* be remodel-
od; there should be either a new coat
on its bewhiskered chin barbered down
a trifle before being sent back East to
thrill the magazine writers with tales
of wonderful grasp of what isn't.—
Guthrie Leader.
I XING LOST BROTHER RETURNS,
This ia a true story of real life and
the actors real people who are well
known to many people throughout
Eastern Oklahoma.
It is the old story of u boy who wan-
dered away from home and was mourned
for twenty years as dead, only to re-
turn to his relatives in the prime of
manhood.
The first act in tho drama was played
in what was then Flint district, in the
old Cherokee nation, .n 1H88. One John
Henson, s bearjiloi* boy, loft the old
homestead to seek his fortune in other
lands, hia aged mother had looked in
vain for a mesHage und doubtless won-
dered until her dying the whereabouts
of her "wandering boy," but no tidings
came. The aged mother died and was
laid to rest near the old home.
The other hoys grew to manhood and
secured allotments for themselves and
families in various parts of the
"nation," all the timo mourning their
brother John as one who was dead.
Richard C. Henson, one of the brothei s,
vettlod on a farm one mile south ol
Foyil. One night last week he heard a
rap on the door and presuming that it
was some neighbor seeking relief in
time of distress, or some unfortunate
wayfarer aeeking shelter, he opened the
dour, when a stranger entered who
proved to be the long lost brother.
John Henson, who is a man probably
45 years old and of intelligent appear-
ance has but a simple story to tell.
He aays that after leaving home in
1888 he aoon "fell in" with a band of
itenerant horse traders and wandered
across Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky
and probably other states until he
landed in Illinois where he secured em-
ployment and remained for a number
of years, Anally moving to Kansas City,
Missouri. During recent years he says
he has written several tletters to rela
tives at the old address hut they were
always returned unclaimed. A few days
ago he waa seized by a fit of home
sick news and longing for familiar scenes
and faces was too strong to resist, con-
' he returned to the old home
THE NEW YEAR.
This is tho Inst day of the old year
At midnight to night 1000 with ail it?
failures and successors, its joy and it?
sorrows, will pass into hiHtory und be
only a memory.
Tomorrow will be the first day of the
new year, the day in which resolutions
are made too often to be broken Nino
teen hundred and ton with all ita opor-
tunitioH and poHsihililieR is now before
ua. In liou of the many hii'iuIIIc reso-
lutions we submit the following gum
from Howard Arnold Walter:
1 would be true, for thorc are those
who trust me;
I would be pure, for there are
those who care;
I would lie strong, for there is much to
suffer;
I would be brave, for there ia much
to dare;
I would bo friend of all-the foe-the
friendless;
1 would be giving and forget the
Rift;
I would lie humble, for I know my
weakness;
I would look up-and laugh-and
love -and lift."
KX-CONGRESSMAN JAMES S. DAVEN-
PORT WILL RE A CANDIDATE.
Recently a representative of this I
paper had an interview with Ex-Con- {
grensman James S. Davenport of Vinita, (
Oklahoma, in which interview Mr.
Davenport stated that he would be a |
candidate for Congress from the Third
Congressional District, subject to the I
action of the Democratic primary in I
August, 1910, and that he wouid make :
his public announcement within the >
next aixty or ninety days.
ROGERS COUNTY SCHOOLS. !
Last Saturday's Kansas City Journal
contained nearly a fourth of a column
write up of the schools of Washington,
Nowata and Rogers counties. It spoke
well of the schools of Washington and
Nowata counties, but particularly
praised the large school districts of
Rogers county and said that they were i
the best organized and conducted of
any in Oklahoma. When it iB taken
into consideration that part of the school
districts of the state, especially on the
west side, have been organized for
years, the above is saying a great deal
of Rogers county schools. Supt. Hes-
ter has certainly put in some good
work, and the credit is due him. There
are yet four school houses to be built
in the county, and to build school
houses in every district there are two
school houses, it takes work, and Mr.
Hester's work speaks for itself.—Ta-
lala Gazette.
IS CRAZY SNAKE DEAD.
Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 30—That old
Chief Chitto Harjo or Crazy Snake as
he is more commonly known, is dead,
in fact died on the second day of the
famous Snake or "Smoked Meat" re-
bellion in March and April 1909, is the
generally accepted theory in Oklahoma
now. The old leader of the Creek
clans who were incited by negroes, whtf
made life miserable for white settlers
about Henryetta and the Hickory camp-
Coprrlrtl IMt, kr O. S. Slmmfrmin Co.-No. it
Tanners
For all Kind* of Furniture. We make tho
Better for Less
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ing grouud, is not only believed to be
deaa but a deputy sheriff, whose name
must be witheld, a member of tlie
RED MEN IN COUNCIL.
Tribe No. 19, Improved Order of Red
Men. held their annual election Monday
night and elected the following officers:
Sachem, Chas. Hess
Senior Sagamore, J. S. Whitebom
Junior Sagamore, Homer Watson
Prophet, Dave Alton
Chief of Records, L. R. Canfield
Keeper of Wampum, J. W. Riggs
Collector of Wampum. Guy Story
The Red Men's Band discoursed sweet
mask at intervals. After the work
was finished the members marched to
the 8addle Rock Restaurant, where a
rOOT CKUSHIDBY TUM.
A serious aeefdent occurred at the
Frisco depot Friday night in which
Frank CraVfocd. ofMt. Starting, Illi-
nois, loet one foot and cams near loos-
inghts life. Mr. Crawford, a passenger
on the Frisco train, was skit at the
time and while his train was waiting
hen he stepped off to get a whiff of
frssh air tw train began to
■iBwnrth—he expected and in
neai saigivn, w «« ■ «
wcoadsd maa given attention. Drs.
Anderson and Hays amputated the
Hmhaextday and later seat the patient
at.'sartSL-iasss
to find it in the hands of strangers,
' 'who knew him not.'' From that place
he journeyed to this eity where bj
chance he engaged in conversation wit]
Jasper Chaney, of Collinsville, to whom
he told the story of his life and the
object of his visit to Oklahoma.
Mr. Chaney is well acquainted with
R. C. Henson, of Foyil, and immedi-
ately arranged for the reuniting of the
two brothers who had been so long
separated.
John HenBon is a Cherokee by blood
but will get no share in the tribal funds
owing to his long absence.
THAT CHEROKEE PAYMENT.
After waiting for more than half
century it appeara that the Federal
Government is about to make good and
pay a just debt of $6,000,000 to the East-
ern Cherokees. This claim has been
pending every Bince the Cherokees
moved west and not a pent has ever
been paid. The persons to whom it
was originally due are, the most of
them, long since dead. The General
Government has never denied the debt
but has kept the claim so entangled
with red tape that the Cherokees have
been deprived of this vast sum of
money for more than an average
hnman lifetime.
One inducement offered the Chero-
kee people to ratify the treaty of 1902
was the solemn promise there in that
all moneys due the tribe woulp be
spedily paid and unsettled claims im-
mediately adjusted. Instead of a
specific performance all claims which
existed at tint time are existing yet
as nothing has been paid. About five
years ago the supreme court of the
United States rendered a decision in
favor of the Eastern Cherokees for
$5,000,000, and held that the "Old Set-
tler" Cherokees had nothing due them.
Instead of going ahead and paying the
amount to all Cherokees who were not
"old settlers", as should have beeu j during the skirmish on the second day
done. The matters were referred to a 'of the "rebellion" the only event in
two by four departmental clerk who fact that conld be rightfully called a
has been expended four or five years, skirmish. The grave of the chief is
' of dollars'said to be within four miles of the
Hickory stomping ground, in a hidden
ravine, known only to tne Indian's
closest warriors who were with him
when he was killed and buried his
body where they believed it would
never be found.
The "Smoked Meat" rebellion was
the autcome of the continual depreda-
tions of a band of Creekj negroes,
whose headquarters were not far from
Henryetta and between that place and
the Hickory camp ground. On tho
morning of Wednesday. March 24 1909,
a posse of deputies from McIntosh
county attempted to capture members
of the band, with a result that a two
days battle ensued, in which several
negroes were killed, and some deputies
wounded.
posse from McIntosh county, offered to
show a newspaper man the grave of
the warrior.
Oklahoma's several cornpanies of
militia in command of Col. Roy HofT
man were encamped at Hickory and
beating the brush miles around for
nearly two weeks were evidently the
victims of a hallucination of a hoax
when they followed clew after clew
aud rumor after rumor, expecting and
so announcing to capture Crazy Snake
each day, until finally called in by the
governor, when Col. Hoffman advised
his superior officer that he believed the
campaign was a needless expense.
It is supposed that Crazy Snake died
time and many thousands
trying ts make a roll of the Eastern
Cherokees. He is now about ready to
make his report and January 10, 1910,
has been set as a date for hearing ex-
ceptions. Considerable pressure is
being brought to bear on the powers
that he by Senator Owen and Repre-
sentative Carter and Creager to have
the money paid out at an early date
and indications now are that it will be
foarth coming in February or March.
However we advise our Cherokee
triends to not put too much depen-
dance in this indefinite promise as our
"Uncle Samnel's" reputation for
prompt payment is nothing extra and
further entanglements of red tape are
possible.
REV. FINLEY MARRIED.
Rev. J. R. Finley surprised his friends
by quietly going to Sapulpa and get-
ting married Tuesday. The lady in the
case being Miss Teresa Smith, one of
the moBt charming and accomplished
young ladies. Rev. Finley is one of
Ciaremore's esteemed citizens, having
formerly been pastor of the Presby-
terian Church at this place. He is alfo
connected with the Farmer's Bank &
Treat Co., and member of our city
school board. The bride is well known
to our people having visited here sev-
eral times and is unusually respect-
ed and admired. They will be "at
home" after January 1, at Ft. Gibson,
Rev. Finley having been chosen as
pastor of the church at that place for
the coming year. Congratulations and
best wishes to Mr. and. Mrs. Finley.
"The Two Merry Tramps" at Opera
House, January fl
OOLAGAH OOZINGS
Rev. R. W. Dowell of Sageeyah and
Frank Dowell of this place have gone
to Fayetteville, Ark. to attend the
funeral of their father.
Married—Joe Snarr Jr. of this place
and Miss Grace Waller of Welch, Okla.
Dec. 26, they left yesterday to visit
relatives at Liberal, Kansas.
D. M. Battenfield.tyife and daughter
of Bushyhead are visiting relatives and
friends nere this week.
W, J. Eldridge and family spent
Christmas with Mrs. Eldridge's parents
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Denny.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Yonng
a girl Dec. 24.
Miss Andie Whisenhunt is spending
holidays with her parents south of
town.
E. Rogers returned Wednesday
morning from a visit to Stillwater, Ok la.
Mrs. Warren Hatch spent Christmas
with her husband at Clareta, Okla.
Ira Rogers and family cf Coffeyville.
Kan., are spending holidays here with
relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McLaughlin and
daughter spent last Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Ssm Alt " and family,
Misses Beuna White and Ella Kepp-
ler were shopping in Cisremore Mon-
day.
C. M. Cox and wife spent Christmas
in Claremore.
Mrs. J. T. Owen and two daughters
of Van Buren, Ark. are visitinjr her
father, R. W. Scruggs and family.
M. D. Reed and wife spent Sunday
with friends in Lenapah.
Ino.
We are making prices that will sol
H on our old stock of wsll paper to
make room for the new stock for 1910
which is arriving. Hill-Henley Hard-
ware Company.
QUICK MONET
Are You Thinking of a Farm Loan?
We pay you the money the day you sign our mortgage. No
Commissions of any kind charged, all Notary work free, and
INTEREST ONLY EIGHT PER CENT. Interest payable an-
nually, with privilege to borrower of paying $100.00, any mul-
tiple or the entire loan off at any interest paying date and stop
the interest on the amount paid.
INCORPORATED CAPITAL $10,000.00
JOHNSTON ABSTRACT AND LOAN COMPANY
Claremore, Oklahoma
Call in, write us or call up Phone 80 We write Fire Insurance
A Happy
New Year
I AM STILL
•IN BUSINESS FOR YOUR HEALTH"
McCLURE'S
Drug Store
PHONE 84
Attention, Property Owners!
Property owners are advised to make application for gas ser-
vice to be extended to the curbing in front of their respective
properties, on streets that are to be paved and where gas
mains exist, prior to the time of paving. This Company will
make no charge for services run to the curb before the pav-
ing is put down. After the streets have been paved, no gas
connections will be made from the main to the curb unless the
owner of the premises desiring gas secures from the city the
necessary permit for opening and replacing the paving and file
said permit with this Company at the time of making applica-
tion.
There will be no charge, however, where the permit is se-
cured for making the service connections from the main to
curb.
Caney River Gas Company
PJ. R. Finley, Prcst. W. G. Riggs, V-Prest. B. J. Burke, Cashier
J. F. Flifpin, Secy.
The Farmers Bank & Tiust Company
Claremore, Okla.
Capital Stock paid up - $30,000.00
We invite your account and assure you the best treatment. Money to
loan on farm and city property. Interest paid on time deposits. Safe
deposit boxes for rent. _ _ .
Directors-J. F. McClellan. J. R. Finley, W. G. RiggB, B. J. Burke,
J. F. Flippin, ♦
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REAL ESTATE
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Oil, Gas and Mineral Leases
Bought and Sold.
"WE WANT TO Btnr TOtm LAND
JOHN BARRETT
FOREST BUILDING. CLAREMORE, OKLA.
Office Phone 162. Residence Phone 20.; 4
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