The Catoosan. (Catoosa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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THE CATOOSAN.
Volume 3.
Catoosa, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, Friday, May 17, 1907.
Number 13.
THREE HEN ARRESTED
Charged With Counterfeiting
Uncle Sam'n Money.
this year by u picnic being given
by thu Sunday school. A n ice
I program will be given.
The Sunday Hcnool is growing
jttteadily, anu great interest in
being shown.
• Miaa Anna Zellner returned
CATOOSA PEOPLE CAUGHT Saturday from a weeks visit with
• ! relatives at Keystone.
Ernost Gilliss, who was stabb-
Several Bad Dollars .and Halt cd about two weeks a^o, by Herb
Dollan Passed on Some of 1 st ne' ™ improving nicely
A „ , .. A school meeting was held at
Our RuHinesM Men. the Hchool house Saturday night
A. N. Kirby was elected to fill
Jos. Botter, A. T. Hardwicke the vacant place on the board,
and W. A. AUoway were arrest- ™l thepatrons of the district
ed at Tulsa and were bound over P°t|ti°.L?'. T, "i"\ Z°"nel'
. - . . , . „ ; to be reappointed teacher.
to the federal grand jury Mon- Mrs< R()bert Zei,ner> of Key
day afternoon. Bond in the sum stone arrived Thursday and will
of $2,000 was fixed for each, but visit the family of L. Zellner for
as they were unable to furnish j8 -veral days.
the necessary security they were I rDri?AI mT„ icf~™iv^
all remanded to the Muskogee,bKhhN BU(* l5> <*OIN(*
federal jail. I
The three men were arrested ; Agricultural Department Makes
early Sunday morning, charged j Report of Success of BUck Fly
with having spent $7 or $8 in a —
house of questionable repute in' Washington, May 14—It was
the east part of the city. One1 announced by the agricultural
of the men is said to have made' department today that the green
a confession in which others were bug or spring grain apliis which
implicated, and other arrests are has done so njuch damage to
expected to follow. \ wheat and other small grains in
They are supposed to be the ( Texas and in a few of the south-
same gang which has been dis-
pensing the "queer" in Catoosa.
Garnett
If the farmers have a few days
of fine weather they will be able
to catch up with their farm work.
While playing ball recently
Frank Biebe was struck with a
baseball bat just above the eye,
causing a bad wound. The phy-
sicians had to take three stitches
to close the cut.
Every one is taking a big inter-
est in the Sabbath school aud at-
tendance was, good last Sunday.
The singing at night was well at-
tended. Three dozen new song
bdoks and a sufficient number of
lamps have been ordered so that
em counties of Kansas, already
is practically exterminated by its
natural parasite, a very minute
black fly. In Texas and Oklaho-
ma the bug has practically disap-
peared through the action of the
parasite and a report from south-
ern Kansas received by the de-
partment today states that at
least fifty per cent of the bugs
now are parasitized in all the in-
fested fields in that section. TJie
report adds that if the favorable
weather continues through the
present week the bug will have
been absolutely exterminated.
"Millions of parasites," contin-
ues the report, "are coming out
in every wheat field and the green
bug has been overtaken and con-
trolled by its natural enemy and
services can be held at night, j
Sunday school and preaching |ev- j there seems to be little, if any
ery Sunday morning Rev West-' fear of further damage."
lake a Holiness minister will hold
services ever 4th Sunday.
J. Dowdy and family visited on
Mingo the first part of the week.
John Fouts and family were at
Garnett Sunday.
Rock is being quarried here
and shipped to Tulsa.
The bureau of entymology of
the agricultural department has
aided the work by sending hun-
dreds of thousands of the par-
sites from Oklahoma and Texas
to Kansas. Three agents of the
bureau are now in the field direct
ing the onslaught on the bug.
The road w<?st of Catoosa needs | The weather conditions this
some repairing as there are some spring have been favorably to
very bad holes and dangerous
culverts. Let the people get out
and fix them.
Blue Cut.
Storm cellars were in demand
in this vicinity Monday night. -
Replanting corn is the order of
the day.
Mr. Hurd who lives on the
Dooley place bought two fine cal-
the multiplication of the bug,
which became a serions pest un-
der such conditions. The para-
sites, too, multiply only under
favorable weajther conditions but
they soon exterminate the enemy.
The green bug ,was noticed first;
in this country in 1884. While
more or less common every year,
the conditions which favor its
destructive abundance occur at
comparatively long intervals. It
ves of M. F. Johnson last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, of Tulsa I caused great damage in 1890 and
county and Mr. and Mrs. Cum-!again *n 190® ten years later,
mins of this vicinity, visited Mr. |and a third outbreak is now com-
and Mrs. Frank Danderson north to a close- Ever-v year how-
of Catoosa Sunday. jever- few of the bugs are present
The democratic voters of this | *n vv'heat fields, especially in the
vicinity are talking of running | southern wheat districts, but not
W. A. Cummins for Justice of sufficient to cause notable dam-
CONSTITUTION TALKS
Several Good Reanons Why It
Should He Adopted.
WE NEED STATEHOOD BAD
Opinion* By Hoth Republicans
and Democrata on That
Subject.
It is a bit interesting to delve
into conspiracy that has been
hatched to deprive Oklahoma and
Indian Territories of joint state-
hood and discover what interests
are busied in preventing a con-
summation that has been the
'fond hope of a million people for
several years.
It is not the agriculturalists, the
artisans or the common laborers
of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and
New York who oppose the grant-
ing of statehood to Oklahoma,
Indian Territory, New Mexico
and Arizona.
It is the railroad magnates, the
money kings of Wall street, the
; mining speculators, and the
political hirelings in the senate
and house of the United States
congress who do the bidding of
these interests, who would de-
| feat statehood.
What a commentary upon free
goverment and American inde-
pendence when self goverment
| is denied to a million people at
the behest of the representatives
of that, class of society fiat sup-
plies the sons of Sodom found +o-
day in our Pittsburgs, New
Yorks and Chicagos!
Note even in our midst the
persons who are parties to this
conspiracy assassinate the hops
of statehood. Who are they?
Corporation attorneys and rail-
way lobbyists, carpetbag office-
holders and politicians who feed
ever off the crumbs doled out to
them by such interests.
And yet these leeches on the
body politic have the audacity to
claim that the people of the two
territories will defeat statehood
by voting down the bill of rights
that has been prepared at the
direct instance of the people,
that they will reject the consti-
tution that offers them greater
protection from railway domin-
ance and trust greed than is
afforded by the organic law of
any other commonwealth in the
Union.
It must be admitted that the
people have been fooled in times
past, and that frequently, but
conditions have changed and the
people have abandonded the erst-
while foolish practice of blindly
following these treacherous polit-
ical bell wethers.
Give the people a chance to
to vote on the constitution and
see what they will do.—Daily
Oklahomian.
nose to spite our face? Some of ATT MPN IN PA f flfiO i
the things in the constitution |U1L N*" UAIUUBA
Looks Considerably Like There
Was "Something Doin'"
OIL MEN LOOK MYSTERIOUS
Will Not Talk on the Subject
of Oil But Continue to Pros-
pect With Energy
enemy.
looks bad to republicans, but they
look good to the democrats-who
seem to be in the majority. Who
would defeat statehood? Is it
not republican office seekers?
Statehood is the only method of
removing restrictions and is the
only way our state can be de-
vested. Every county in Indian
Territory should send delegations
to the republican state conven-| rn, . ~ u. ..
tion instructed for statehood and .Th.cre. could be n0, doubt '"the
the adoption of the constitution. |:T? ,®f ?.ny0"e "ho bas bf?
All political history points repub- ^ situation here that
lican victory. We will never;C atoosa ,s on tho eve or a great
have a better chance to fight the!0'1 ,0?m' an? .^°" f "5"^
us to hear of oil being found in
this vicinity at any moment for
all the signs are surely pointing
in that direction.
For weeks the oil men have
been cbming and they continue
to come on every train, and not-
... . .. withstanding the cold rainy
Wesley Shoulders an old c.ti- weather they drive over the
zen of Catoosa, died at the h6me j country each day and retura with
of his daughter. Mrs. E. G. W,l-|an air of mystery aboulthem.
son Sunday morning at H | All effort to ge« them to talk on
o clock He was m his 75th yearlthe subject is met with the 3ame
a" ?ibeenm bad health for | answer, "nothing to say," but it
is impossible for them to hide
the fact that they are iri a con-
tinual state of expectancy.
There is no doubt that there
is plenty of oil in this vicinity if
right men should get hold of it
and the Catoosa people are now
watching with pleasure the many
signs of success which are plain
to be seen.
Meanwhile the hotels and liv-
erymen are reaping a golden
harvest.
AN OLD CITIZEN DEAD
Wesley Shoulders An 0!rt Soldier and Royal
Arch Mason Passod Away Sunday.
some time.
He was buried Monday after-
noon at 2 o'clock in the Denbo
cemetry.
Mr. Shoulders was born in the
state of Indian in 1832. His fam-
ily was prominent in the social
and political aflairs of his native
state, his father being at the
time of his death state senator of
Indiana, in fact he died sudden-
ly, at the zenith of his manhood
on the floor of the senate.
In 1856 he was married to Mary
Denbo, a sister of our fellow
townsman, J. A. Denbo. At her
death he broke up house-keeping
and has since resided with his
Lightning Destroys Station.
Lightning early yesterday
morning struck the Midland Val-
children. He leaves surviving!1^ station at Skiatook, fifteen
i him two daughters and a son, '< m^es north of Tulsa, and the
Mrs. E. G. Wilson, L. H. Oldfield j structure was burned to the
of Omaha, Nebr. and Chas. W. l^round- Several cars standing
Shoulders. ! near the depot were badly dam-
At the beginning of the civil la£ed- The loss is reported at
war he entered the Union army !over $4,000. In addition to the
as First Lieutenant, where he I burning the depot, the heavy
contracted the disease from rains washed out a number of
which after all these years of j switches at Skiatook and damaged
suffering he at last succumbed. !ma'n track to a great extent.
the Peace and E. Tuck Pendley
for Constable.
Lone Prairie
The Democrats had a meeting
at the school house Tuesday
night, several candidates were
present.
Childrens day will be observed
age.—State Capitol.
Europe is growing very insist-
ent on having a Goverment label
on all our food products exported
to those countries, but what's
the matter with our demanding
a Goverment guarrantee on all
the titles they send over here. „
The Seminole Capital, a repub-
lican paper, published at Wewo-
ka, come out boldly for the con-
stitution. It says:
"It is a constitution made by
the democrats, therefore will not
please republicans. One made
by the republicans would not suit
the democrats. Shall we defeat
statehood for revenge against the
democrats? Shall we cut of our
He was a member of the M. E.
Church and a Royal Arch Mason.
He has lived an honest straight-,
forward life and made friends of
all his acquaintances.
Card of Thanks
It is fortunate that in the seem-
ly selfish struggle of life that we
are sometimes caused to pause at
the bedside of the dying and
By detouring over a sidetrack at
Skiatook the east bound Midland
Valley passenger reached Tulsa
only a couple of hours late.
Habaes^Writ Denied
Judge Adams, in the United
States circuit court, denied today
the application of H. C. Pierce,
chairman of the Waters-Pierce
witness the dark and deep trage-i Oil Co., ^or a wr^ habaes
dy of death; for by this means |corPus and ordered that the
we find the deep underlying prin-' Petitioner be remanded to the
ciples of charity, love and sym- custody of the chief of police, Jto
pathy of our fellowman. There! be delivered to Sheriff Mathews,
never was a more beautiful por- of Texas' for extradition. Pierce
traval of the fine and noble attri- is wanted in Texas to answer to
butes of the human heart than an idictment charging perjury
that shown by the people of Ca- *n an affidayit made by him in
toosa in the last sickness, death 1900, to the effect that the
and burial of our father. Wesley Waters-Pierce Oil company was
Shoulders, spoken in the lan- n°ta Party to anp pool, trust
guage of many kind deeds per- confederation or commission in
formed during his long sickness restraint of trade.
and the profussion and designs
of flowers contributed on the oc- Hon., Champ Clark says he
cassion of his funeral. will take the Democratic nomina-
For all these our hearts go out ^on ^ no one have it.
in gratitude and love to the kind Bryan ^^ "
of neighbors who have made of Clark is spared the disagreeable
Catoosa a community of happy necessity.
h°MRS'and Mrs. E. G. Wilson I Tad HilI of Fort Gibson s
Charles W. Shoulders j visiting home folk here thisweek.
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Bilbrey, Joe. The Catoosan. (Catoosa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 1907, newspaper, May 17, 1907; Catoosa, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc183328/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.