The Cherokee Advocate. (Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Indian Terr.), Vol. 28, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 5, 1904 Page: 2 of 4
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frill I VI in Till: I Ml'miMC- N TTI'I
front aviI nneiie nnd attended
strictly o bnine The people
need to feel grateful to Ihe Coin
mission for the fivor they have
shown one young men
Now that the water work case
baa been settled and the people of
Tahlequah know tint we nre to
have water work under the fran-
chise granted to the Crystal
Spring company the proper thing
for all the property owner to do
is to submit graclou-ly and show
to the out side that we have the
get up and pnah that i necessary
to build up our beautiful little
city We should lay aside the
difference that sprang up be-
tween eomo of our people over
the injuucliou proceediiurs and
try and come together and work
harmoniously for the nphuilding
of Tnblcqnnb
The fo’lowineqne'tionare asked
by allottee : “What are we to do
who have lost onr return cards
if no more returns are to he lean-
ed? Are we going to oe the
balance of onr allotments T ’’ To
such pcron we have this to say:
No yon nre not going to lose any
part of your nlloments jnst be
patient nnd ere long yon will have
nn opportunity to ' get another re
turn nnmber get in nnd complete
yenr fi'ing This rule may seem
Lari but applies not to one but
to all alike No one need have any
fears of Insvm aiythingin being
thus shut off for a lime The Com
mission is in this as !n all its deal-
ings Impartial sod at the proper
time yon will he notified to come
and finish filing
We see from the life ppr
that the Government is trying
to devise means by which Indians
will lie allowed to sell pint of their
land to actual settlers and not al
low them to sell to speculators
even though Hie speculator may
offer twice a much as the actaal
settler t e money to tie paid to
the government to hold and to
be paid them nt the rate of $10 per
month Now how docs this strike
you Mr Indian? Is this the jas
tice and fair play we have beard
so much about? Wbat is tbe u-e
of giving him anything if yon nre
not going to give him enough to
do him some good! The follblood
have been mistrustful all along
and have always claimed that they
would get tbe worst of it in any
change made hy the government
reguarding their land tenure
THE CREEK COUNCIL
From Mr Alex I’oeey we learn
that the Creek council has passed
au act appropriating $'(100 for the
use of National Attorney Mott to
bo used in contesting citizenship
claims before the Dawes Commis-
sion Attorney Mott has made an
excellent Impression on tin Creek
In lbms ami the above action in-
sures a Lew contract with him n
national attorney nf’er the expira-
tion of his present term Jan 1st
A bill was also passed providing
for t ho election of a commission
of five persons who will bo em-
powered to reprc-cnt tlio Creek
nation In all nutters not provided
for in the treaty which eommis-
fjinn will be constituted a LuRi-
iiH inu ji-hv it nr i lie 4Tnn sition of th surplus land and
' scliO'l prope rtr Amounting to 40
cr for each of l he ten hoarding
frho'ln aln the Cm pit a1 block and
building At Okmulgee nod district
court property The sentiment
SATUKDAY Noykmukk 190-1 j of the council I In quicklv di-pose
nf thin properly for cash t the
Heay -ever tbouglitof :e!jplif(it hUUvTt he fnd 0 lP
number i f Cherokee employ-! j Mt rihn f a er cpHa Of thin
by the IhwM rurnmUi! A ’ '-(mission Chief Porter will be
leM one fi’i:rth i f the employe! offl(io mrmUr wllh powPr to
in the land office nt t In place nr r4lll0VP anv lumber who maybe
Cherokee Thl bw wlat our illcofnietPIlt The sum of j
boy CHO ill furthi-nieelve ithev!gr( 000 w eppropt dated for the!
will oniy try No young inti e r n-p j)H Commission which will
succeeded nnlen he cut loif npWMary hdd maJom at Vli
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ingtooand vnrioua points in this
nation— Muskogee rheenix
KICK ON TAX OPINION
—
Mukogee I T— The decision
of the court of appeals at South
McAlester that the tribal tax of
one half of one pe cent of the first
cost of all goods offered for sale
hy noncitizen merchants in Indian
Territory ran be collected la ere
atel consiernstlon among the mr
chants here Some of them de
dare that they will submit to nr
ret before they will pay the tax
nnd other express the belief that
the question will go to the United
State Snffremo Court nnl the de-
cision of the court of appeal will
be reversed there They believe
that hy fighting the collection of
the tax they will ward it off until
after tribal relations are desolved
in 190(5
Nearly every merchant doing
bu‘inesa in the Creek nation and
probably nine-tenths of them in
Muskogee are In the noncitizen
clas referred to in the decision
and will therefore be compelled to
pav the tax
There are three national banks
in Muskogee which are capitalized
for $1000-10 or over One of them
has a capital stock of $200000 If
the tar is collected from this insti-
tution fora single year it will
amount to $3000 No tribal tax
ha been paid here for three years
Then this bank would ba com-
pelled lo pay tax amounting to
$9000 in case the descisiou of the
court should he put into effect
A merchant who lias a $20000
stock would be compelled to pay
$100 s year tax on the original
rontoflis p0i3s ’As the permit
lvU tlt the tsx ebsll be
paid on tbe fi-M cot price of all
goods offered for side a tax nould
be due on all new nods placed on
the shelf during the year This
might amount to several tim® the
original sunt and run the tax up
to several hundred dollar
Some of the lawyers of Muko-
gee believe that the rase will final
Iv be derided in accord with Judge
Gill's special pinion that the tri-
bal tax cantMt bp collected where
the final payment on lots upon
which the merchant nre conduct-
ing their bnsine nre made This
property they believe is no longer
a part of the Creek nation and the
right of the nation to collect tax
cease Many of the merchants
here declare that they will fight
tbe tax along these lines In Mil
kogeeand other towns of Indian
Territory a large number of the
lots are paid for the Creek nation
having relinquished all claim to
them hy giving deed over tbe
signature of the principal chief
Under the Creek license law
each doctor dentist or lawyer i
assessed S2" a year Hotels pay
from $12 to $3G owing lo the nnm
her of guests they can accommo-
date The classes of business on
tbe tax list embraces neatlyevery
enterprise that can be carried on
in a town Even a tax for the
section reading “On each estab-
lishment selling nonintoxicating
ales tonic meads or anv other
form of drinks intended ns a sub-
stitute for malt or spirituous li-
quors a tax of $100 shall be collect
ed”
The tribal law of the Creek na-
tion is signed by Chief Pleasant
Porter and wa approved by MTil -liant
McKinley President of the
United States November 22 1900
— Wagoner Sayings
cum ii'tN'P f-r th
commission wdl
a plan fur th
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t LOCAL NWS f
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FRISCO SYSTEM
lCCAL TIME TA3LE
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l’aMiii-r No SI due 1 J :2:’i a 111
fM’iil Freiijlit N SS due 10J0 m
r t nnrn
Lund Fn-iitlit No SS due 1:40 p in
l’-eiiii-r No Si due 4:SS p 111
Cli-4 onlillii'tinn Kt Fayetteville for Kh:i-
h t 'itv St Iiiii and all jMiiiitu north and
n-t I’urin and all xiint in Texiir
J T SUtlicin A rent
r W IW
I)iv I’a-e Agent Joplin Mo
TAKE NOTICE
IVrti- kiriui to ulM-rilM f-r tlm Advo-
cate w ill pay tln-iu ill nt tlii olE' or m ud
then tliriiih tin mail No one i mithor-ii-d
to not our n'ont and our uWriptiou
price is $100 a year
JESSL IIARNAGE
Attorney & Counsellor At Law
Ollier over the
Cherokee National liana
TAHIKQC Alt IT
Joe M Lab ay came in last Thnrs
day
John Welch was in the city this
week
''National Council convenes next
Monday
Cliit Fry of Salliaw was iu
our town this week
Return numbers will he called
next Monday beginning at No 1
George and Wet Mayes are doing
bnines in Tah’equah this week
Ex Chief T M Unftiiigton re-
turned to Tahlequah last Tuesday
Attorney Gny Peed of this
place has jnst returned from St
Louis
John Hallett one of the leading
citizens of Claremore wa in onr
city this week
Steward of the Orphan Asylnm
J T Tarks and wife took in the
St Louis fair this week
Conncilmen Sam Sanders nnd
Tuxie Mallard of Illinois district
were in Tahleqush thi week
Mr Jones Chief Clerk in the
land office who has been off on a
vacation is again at Ids post
Monday next will be the first
Monday in November On this
day retran numbers will be called
Prof Coppeck Superintendent
of schools who has been In the
East for some time returned tills
week
Next Tuesday’s call will start at
11017 and no number will be call-
ed below that number daring the
week
Rill Ileflin of Fort fiihson was
up this week looking after eotte
contest bainess before the land
office
Sam Parks a young Cherokee
attorney of Vinita’ was looking af-
ter professional business in our
city this week
The fullblood held a big muss
meeting at the Dug Tucker Spring
this week the object of which we
have’nt learned
Pert Keeler of Eartlesyille
came in the first of the week to
look after some busine before
the land office
Attorney Vanhoy of Musko
gee was In the city this week
looking after some business be-
fore the commission
A J Knighten is opening a
meat market on Main street be-
tween the Winder chille stand and
Sam Tuell's shoe shop
The pupils of Tahlequah Insti-
tute were given a very pleasant en-
tertainment on Monday night by
their teacher it being Ualoween
night
There never was a harder work
er a truer man than Uncle Dick
Perry he is clever and does bis
very best to please everybody
—it has long been acknowledged
an impossibility to please all which
makes the deportment of he who
tries to do bo tbo more admirable
Roe Eli' one f O 'di'daV
landing ciMjco o-rr down hi
week to give t-ilnocy in con
tet ca I fore the commission
Tnxle Ilrowo who h been
veral inon'l si Id
if-nr fTarrnorc om In tM
w'-rtr Iton'liii' It ere m to do hint
g'd
f Sifor Thom Smith of Sa-
lln str'icf mured to tow hi
week 1 1 ! friend will’flnd him
aero the trt optoite hi old
home
George Ervin t one of the b'st
men in the land office Hcl in-
telligent and ecoonnp'iehed end
oonM well fill any place In the
office
On pomater Mr R B Ho
a a tnot officer He trie to
p!eae all the patron of the office
he patiently anewersthe many tri-
vial questions asked him
A B Morton returned to Table-
qnah last Tuesday Mr Morton
ix a nice fellow and b done a
larg hnine in thi town to the
satisfaction of all interested
La'er Brothers who bought
ont the Garrett lievery business
intend to stock np we understand
with new baggie and team eons
to meet the demand of their many
f
friends
A coat wa founil on the street
betveen Mr' Leoser’ home and
the bridge hy John Leoser Satur-
day lt The owner can get the
coat hy calling on the finder and
describing it
Marjor Breckinridge is a true
friend to the fullblood and is do-
ing everything possible to protect
them but the task is a lisrd one
for one mn to battle against fifty
or ixty eiirewd grader
The little ten year nld son of
Jack Hagn living south f the
depot died Tnesday morning laat
after an illness of three or four
days He was buried the billow-
ing day in the city cemetery
Ex-City Marshal Lee Wyly who
is now un Indian policrian return
ed this week from the Chickasaw
and Choctaw country where he
has been for some time roundiog
up tbe noncitizens' cattle Lee is
the right man in the right place
it matters not where you put him
Joseph Cobb ex member of the
Cherokee council and one of the
big stock men of Coowee conwee
spent several days in Tahleqnah
this week Joe say he got com-
pletely tnrned around in coming
In on ‘‘Old Crnoked(’’ and believes
that had there been another mils of
such crooked road lo travel he
would have been standing on his
head
The Advocate has been often ac-
cused of many things hut an old
lady capped the climax this week
when she came in and innocently
Inquired “ Mister do you still run
n second hand 6tore up stairs f
In order that no one else maybe
misled wonld say: We neither
runaBocoud hand shop a pawn
shop or any other kind of shop
up etairs The second hand is
over the Leader office
The people generally are well
pleased with the Tahlepuah town
site npprisement Of course as
is invariably the rase you will
bear some complaining that their
lots are appraised too h’gb But
nine out of every ten are satisfied
and the most you can hear is that
the town will take new life and be-
gin to build The thing necessary
to bring this about is for the peo
pie of Tahlequah to pull together
yWe have noticed quite frequent-
ly of late young fellows mostly
negroes running their horses along
First and Second Depot streets
Many tim®s little children are play-
ing or parsing along and are com-
pelled to run to get out of the
way Now we are not positive
but think there Is a law against
fast riding on the streets nnd if
these sporty guvs don’t look
little out they limy have to ptv fur
their expert riding
It ha tH-rii shown that qn ie a
ntfmhrr of pcojil living in t)ia
psrt of the country were ntlt-d
in filing upon 1 nl belonging’ to
1 other® Th’s w cused hy grsft-
ere coming to thm snl clain-irg
lo have lingl t certain improve-
ment when in tact they beb-rg
ed to some ne le TMs b
ftiel lot o' unnecessary expense
and trouble ard H sncti grafters
should he rnn out of the country
if it coold he done
( Mr Henry Meigs of Foil Gib-
son spent several day a in Table
quah thi week IT wa a witness
in a contest ce of hi sister Mrs
Hinton of Tat k Hill More than
thirty-five year ago Mr Meig
was a resident of Tahlequah and
clerked in the store of John and
Lewi Ross the first mercantle
More pat up In ihe town after
civil war It ws moved to Fo-l
Gibson when J W Stapler return-
ed and resumed buinea in the
town
A spreial disputch to the Globe-
Democrat from Ardmore I T
y : “It is learned that the com
mercial interests of the Chickasaw
nation will send a delegation to
Congress to represent the inter-
ets of the noncitizens in the mat-
ter of legixlntiori that will come up
during the cession The business
men are oppose! to any chnnge in
the lease system and will labor
for a law providing (or the rernov-
al of Hi restriction on allotted
lands’’
The new public school in this place
opened Monday morning with ex-
ceedingly bright prospects The
principal Rev J F Thompson
is an oM and experienced teacher
He ts assisted hy three lady leath-
ers who have had eevrrul year ex-
perience Tbe city school board
remodeled and n idid onto the old
public school Louse and it is now
largo and Ample for aU purposes
The people of Tahlequah can make
this one of the beet schools in the
country if they will give the school
board the necessary support
J Trof Walter J Tack Presi-
dent of Cherokee Academy Is Ad-
vising the fullbloods to rent their
land with one epecial object iu
view and that is the education of
their children The rent from an
average allotment will keep a boy
or girl in school one session This
would be far wiser than to spend
the money promiseonsly It ta
belter to have a fall head and a
comparatively empty pocketbook
than to have an empty head and a
full pocketbook
The Cherokee people must edu-
cate their children If they would
have them hold their owh under
new conditions that are approach-
ing Two or three month per
year in school Is not sufficient to
get a good education
Prof Tack hopes to increase
the fullblood attendance in school
from this time on and he Is giving
his best endeavors to thi task
This school ehoaldbe largely pat-
romzed hy the Cherokee people
because it is a ecbool worthy to be
patronized
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A Thoughtful Child-
Never did wekuow of a more
thoughtful nnd beautiful act than
at the burial of tbe little Ilaga
boy one day thi week When we
arrived nt the cemetery we were
met at the grave by little Effie
Harris the little eight year old
daughter of Mr Harris who lives
in the sexton’s house there with
a wreath of wild flowers which she
had gathered She said to ui:
Here i a wreath I thought maybe
as he was a poor little boy no one
would think of fixing any flowers
to go on his grave so I’vo fixed
this Where could there be any-
thing more thoughtfal and beauti-
ful tlin this There is a wreath
and crown awaiting this little child
in the life to come where no
doubt she will meet this poor littlo
boy
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Melton, W. J. The Cherokee Advocate. (Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Indian Terr.), Vol. 28, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 5, 1904, newspaper, November 5, 1904; Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1856268/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.