The Reporter. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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CHELSEA, CHEROKEE NATION, INDIAN TERRITORY, FRIDAY, MARCH, ao, 1903.
I Bank of Chelsea,j
CHELSEA, IND- TER.
jlNDIVIDUAL RSPONSIBILITYS/OO.OOO |
M ***tVATE BANK o wned by the following repfeaentative citizens: ]
I J. T. McSpadden, Milan & McIntosh, C. L. L*n«, W. J. Strange, C. A. ,
■ ' W H' McSP*',den. W. H. Clark. Mrs. J. C. McS ridden, J. M. Sluirp J
I C. W. Poole and John D. Scott, who assure yon of it* perfect safety. We j
lire protected with oa good a safe, vault and time locka as are made in the I
I United States, and the uae of our safety vault ia tendered to any of our ]
I customers free of charge, for placing any valuablefpaper* they wish to pro- j
I tact from loss by fire or otherwiae.
YOUR BANK.AIQ BUSINESS
nmSfSOTFUt-LY Jint imrcn
INDIANS AND THEIR PAT-
RONYMICS.
One of the government'* recent
acts in connection with the !•>
dians which has attracted vastly
lesa attention than the ill-advised
order about the cutting off of the
bravea' hair in the notification is-
sued by the president with regard
to the names given to Indians in
schools and on the official records.
It is well known that the name —- — ,
bestowed upon the Indian on hit in ,he grand march of our Western
entrance into the vestibule of civil-
izstion is commonly a matter «of
I f. T. McSPADDEN, President. W. O. MILAM, Vice-President.
IJOHN D. SCOTT, Cashier.!
BS3BBC1
priqsoi) & Patterson,
to Date Lumber Dealers
Up
CHELSEA. I. T.
"We carry the best stocks of Lumber, Shingles,
■Lath,'Lime, Cement, Plaster and"paints ever
•offered on any Indian Territory market, and
challenge comparison on same.
'•We Have
THE RIQHT GOODS
AT RIQHT PRICES.
At I ^ <n't fie Undersold.
Chelsea Milling Co
li- 5, Jeffaries, Mgr.
Manufacturers of high Flour and .Meal, and all kinds of Mill Feed
LEADING BRANDS:
American Pateiftt. Lily of Egypt PaUqi.
O. K- 5ecoq PsUql. GoMeq Parrel.
You wilt-find our Flour in all the principal stores of -our
neighboring towns. Call for aho try it, and if it doe9 not give
you satisfaction, take it back where you got it and get your money
back or another sack in hs place. It will nbt cost ydu ahything
■1 we fully guarantee our'flour to give satisfaction. We also do a
regular Exchange aud deposite busim-ss with the farmers. *Briug
me your wheat and corn aud ' I will guarantee we will send you
home perfectly satisfied with both the quaiitity'&nd'quality you re-
■ctfive. Yours for business,
I Chelsea Milling Co. ^
All kinds of
Lumber.
Shingles, Latli,
Sash. Doors,
Blinds, Mouldings,
Screens, Porch and
Stair Trimmings.
H.'H Lindley, General Manager, will alwnys be at the Lutn«
bet Yard, readylto wait on you.
P. Q. Browning & Co.
foolish caprice on the part of some
agent, or teacher, or other
white person. It is a common
trick to call young Indians at
school after famous or notorious
persons. The struggles of the
young aborigine are often added to
by the necessity of-bearipg through
life the name of Otto Yon Bit-
mark, or George Francis Train,
or Belva Lock wood or Carrie Na-
tion or some other equally known
person. Often the- struggler re
lapses Into barbarism .under the
mere weight of this odious neces-
sity.
Still other young Indians fere
burdened with false and ignorant
English translations of the name#
given them by their pareuts, like
Dog-That-Jumps- Around, or Hole*
in-the-Day {'this great Indian's
name should really have Seen
translated Eclipse), or Old Maa-
Afraid-of-HU-Horses and 1m 00.
With one bother and then another
the youngllndians' way in civiliza-
tion is likely to be seriously ob-
structed by reason of his name.
And even if he is given a simple
and reasonable English name it
often happens that in different sur-
names is giveu to each one of the
children of the same parents—a
process which results ia confnsiou
in matters of inheritance and paves
the way of much litigation.
The president now decides that
children who enter schools or go
upon the agents' roll, shall, when
ever it is practicable, preserve as
given names the -Indian names
that have been given them, but
shall receive as a surname the
name ef their father. Tbis in-
troduces a new principle. The
Indians have never had patrony-
mics. They have had matronym-
ics—clan -names and family names
—but designation has seldom ruu
with them'in the paternal line. It
is almost a religious principle with
them that a child shall have a
name of his own—shall stand as it
were, on his own feet in the world.
But times have changed with them.
Since now they sre to inherit
through the father, the patronymic
is not only desirable, but neces-
sary. Aud it is pleasing to see
that the hntive Indian names are
to be perpetuated by the govern-
ment's decree wherever they are
found euvhonious and usadlc.—
New York Mail and Express
cockleburs had just been removed.
Swung over his left arm were a
P"'r of oldtime saddlebags, stuffed
with a various assortmeut of house
hold supplies. The loug hair and
the saddlebags teemed strangely
out of place in this age of Creek
deeds and statehood agitation.
Then it occurred to us that the
long-haired Snalce Indian, with
his oldtime saddlebags, was only
one of the many discordant notes
civilization.
THE FARMER'S VIEW.
Writing to the "Michigan
Farmer," ©r. E. R. Ellis displays
good sense, good economics and
good Americanism when he says,
regarding the plan of entering into
a reciprocity dicker with Canada:
W ith their cheap land and cheap
labor and * free open market here,
Canadians- could so flood all the
border-states with their products
that the blight would be felt by
every -4arge aud <stnall producer in
onr northern states. We had an
ezpetieoce cf that ■ 40 years ago,
when our market was crowded
with poultry, eggs, lambs and all
inner of garden tru:k from
'across the river, to the great detri
ment of all such producers on this
aide. It' will be most unwise to
try that again. Canada now sends
aa much of her best products In
her aurplus young men and women.
These are assimilated here with
advantage to us now, but would it
be so with free trade? Most as
suredly not. They would rtay at
home, earn and spend their money
there and enrich their own country
at our expense or by profits made
out of open markets.
This is the American farmer's
view of the Canadian reciprocity,
He does not thiak he ahould be
exposed to competition with the
cheapest labor and the lower priced
farm lands across the border, and
he will naturally and rightly re-
sent the adoption of a policy which
deprives him of Dingley Tariff
protection for the benefit of the
manufacturing interests.- Coffey-
villejonrnal.
V
If YolTtSo To The
Elite Barber Shop
JOHN L. FO*D.\ PitornitTon,
You will get a first-class shave and an uo-to-da'e hair cut in a
manner that will p!eas- you. The shop is co%y and coinfortabl-
Tne employes are experts nud pL-asant.
_ W* Represent the Finest Laundry in the Country.
The Indian Territory continues
to grow and prosper and will con-
tinue to do so for years to come.
The Indian Territory is a rich
country and is filled with wonder-
ful possibilities for tbe people to
make n-oney. The Indian Ter-
ritory will continue to grow so
long as the people of the people of
the old states continue to want to
improve their opportunities and
condition.—Denison Herald.
OLD STYLE INDIAN "SCARCE.
We kept a ahafp lookout the
other day for anythiug odd that
might tfirn' up and we were well
rewarded for our paiBs, says the
Indiau Journal of Eufaula. Among
: other sights that struck us as being
j curious and interesting was an
Indian with long hair. He was
an old timer and a Snake Iudian.
! His hair, thoug'i long and flowing,
was not over-abundant and its
thinness reminded us of the tail of
a scrub pony from which the
In tbe building of a town there
ia no room for the faction creator.
He is a detriment to the community
and as such shculd Le cut out.
There is room for all to work aud
a work for each to do, and if we
cannot be leader let us be content
to be a worker, and it is possible
that in the latter capacity we can
do more good than we could as the
former. No man should seek to
monopolize any of our public in-
stitntions. New men are comiag
among us all the time, men who
have had experience in other cities
and towns, and who have
ideas.
EASTERN CHEROKEES.
Along with many other interest*
ing things the Indian appropriation
bill makas the following proviaion
for the eastern Cberokees:
Section 68 of the act of congress
entitled "an act to provide for the
allotment of the lands of the Chero-
kee nation, for the disposal of town-
sites therein, and for other pur-
poses," approved July first, nine-'
teen hundred and two, shall be so
construed as to give the eastern
Cherokeea, so called, including
those in the Cherokee nation and
those who remained east of the
Mississippi liver, acting together,
or as two bodies, as they may be
advised, tbe Wetus of a hand or
bands, as the case may be, for all
the purposes-cf-said section; pro-
vided, that the prosecution of such
auit on the part of the eastern
Cherokees shall be through at-
torneys employed by their proper
authorities, their compensation for
expenses and services rendered in
relation to such claim to be fixed by
the court of claims upon the ter-
mination of such auit; and said
sectiou'shall be further so construed
as to require that both the Chero-
kee nation and said Cherokees, so
called, shall be made par ties to any
suit which may be instituted
against the United Slates under
aaid section upon the claim men-,
tioned in house of representatives
executive document numbered
three hundred aud niue of the
■econd session of the fifty-seventh
congress; and if said claim shall be
sustained in whole or in part the
court of claims, subject to the right
of appeal named in said section,
shall be authorized to render a
judgment in favor of the rightful
claimant, and also determine as
between the different claimants,
to whom the judgment so rendered,
equitably belongs either wholly or
in part, and shall be require! to
determine whether, for the purpose
next meeting. A. Bonds
appointed by the chair to assist t
Secretary. C. W.' Poole,
was a member of the railroad <
mittee, made a report- of ths 1
tnittee's recent visit to Coffe;
Motion fcy Joe Nelson and l
by W. J. Strange to accept
report and' retain' the committi
J. T. Brown, who was chairman*
the hall committee, reported,
action was taken on the
Motion by J. W.-"Quinn and
C. W. 'Poole to retain the
mittee. Report was made by
J. Strange/ J. K. Clingan and
J. Coghill, the bridge committe.
Motion by Joe Nelson and secomi
by C. W. Poole to retain the com|
mittee. Motion by C. W. Po
and second by Joe Nelson for 1
cbair to appoint un attorney
committee of one to investtg
the site for the bridge aer
Pryor creek. J. T. Brown
appointed.
HAPPENED FIFTY YEAJ
AGO.
An old copy of the Ch
Advocate reviewed—Temp^..
address by Wm. P. Ross, etc.
The Arrow has before it a 1
of the Cherokee Advocate I
date of January 12, 1853, a
more than-fifty years ago.
Advocate was then in its ei„
y^ar and at its masthead is fo-
the name of Wm. P. Boudinot, 1
itor; Joseph P. Bin?, translct
The first page of the paper is fc
en up with an address deliv
by Wm. P. Rots before the L
of Temperance, which organii
tion appeared to be in good woi
ing order in Tahlequah even .
that early day in the Nation—th
new-Nation. The address in qu
tion breathes the sentiment
masterful mind, and tha Al,
herewith presents an excerpt.
"Intemperance leads to pove.
It makes the rich man poor, 1
th .- poor man poorer. Point
o t one poor drunkard who
m ide a fortune and I will
thousand
yon a thousand rich ones, wh
r— . riches have "taken wings to
of paiticipating in said claim, the j *lves and flown away." Drunk
Cherokee Indians who remaiued enoess and thrift are incompatible
east of the Mississippi river ousti- *nd no.thin* can well combi^
tute a part of the Cherokee nation,
or of the eastern Cherokees, so
called, as the case may be.
There is another provision which
says that the sum of $20,000, or
sc much thereof as is necessary,
is hereby appropriated, to be im-
mediately available, for the pur-
pve of aiding indigent and identi-
fied fullblood Mississippi Choctaws
to remove to Indian Territory, to
be expended at the discretion and
and under the direction of the
secretary of the interior.
BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE.
The Business Men's League met
last Thursday night in regular
session at the court room. Presi-
dent Jefferies was absent on ac-
. new 1 count of sickness. J. W. Quinn
Give these men a chance! male amotion, which was second
and let them come to the front
We cannot remain in tbe same
channel all the time, and things
that were good tan yeara ago have
been supplanted by new ones, and
let those who know of these new
ideas and new systems bare an op-
portunity of putting them in force.
Let us wipe out all factional lines
and take up all matttrs freely and
with due credit to he who pro-
poses them, not stooping to weigh
every proposition on a political or:
creedal basis, but 'iaake the para-
mount issues "Is it good for our
town?" and if it is, take bold, put
by C. W. Poole to elect John-R.
McIntosh temporary chahmnn by
acclamation. Vote was taken
which was unanimous. Aftar
Mr. McIntosh took the chWr Ae
minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved. Business waa
then taken up as follows: The
bylaws committee submitted the
bylaws which were read by J. W.
"Quinn. Motion by J. T. Brown
second by W. "G. Milam to vote On
the bylaws section by section.
Motion by C. W. Poole, settnd
by J- W. Ccghill', to change the
names of the organization from the
I'd like to be n printer;
Aud with the printer's stand;
Green iuk uj on my forehead
Aud benzine in my hand.
Aud if a mad subscriber
Came iu to kick and roar,
I'd s-tab him with tbe towel,
That leans behind tbe door.
—Exchange.
your sh6uldcr to the wheel, no'^Business Men's League to Chelsea
matter whfl drives, and success and
prosperity will be the result.—
Claremore Messenger.
Commercial Club. A vote was
taken and all were in favor of the
change. Motion waa made by N.
B. Dannenberg and seconded by C.
W. Poole to adopt section 6 of the
bylaws. Vote taken and the sec-
tiou adopted. Motion by J. W.
Quinn and second by A. Bonds for
•he chair to instruct the cecre-
them, short of a sordiness of .
that sinks its pos<essor into
meanest of misers. Wheth
they be so combined by any <
in this Nation, I know not,
this we all know ihat hundreds <
victims to their cups, who hav„_
commenced life under an auspici-|
ous sun, and who, otherwise, hfed |
within their easy grasp compe-l
teuce, if not wealth, have sunk tol
poverty and want. Poverty is the!
shadow of drunkenness, a shadow!
ao dark, that it is alike visible!
amid sunshine and cloud and!
which rapidly lengthens toward I
the close of its earthly day. But I
bad as they are, these are not the I
Only personal bad effects of ia-1
temperance in a temporal point of I
view, (and the eternal one we look!
as too aacred for our lips ) Poverty I
can be endured with ease—sick-1
ncss borne with fortitude, anil
death itself met with • defiance. I
But worse than these, it robs its I
v.ctim of that which is more prec-1
ious than gold and jewels, afa41
health and life itself—priceies
reputation. Who trusts the drunk-1
ai d as a sober maa? No one does, [
nor can, nor should. Dangerous I
ai a (companion, unstable and uu-1
reliable, he is not ouly unfit for I
the discharge of high pu'-lic \
duties, but for even those of an
humble kind. Does this assertion
demand proof? Surely not! Who'a
here that knows not cases of the |
noble, Ingenuous and patriot c
man gradually lose caste among ■
his fellow men, audsiuk from high I
promise to depths so low that I
there were "none to do him rev. I
erencc." There has been cases in I
our "teidst. Intemperance and I
true respectability are incompa-
rable too, and never Uuite where
there is a pure aud elevated arvl |
refined moral sentiment. Tlie<c
considerations, it seems should I
win every man $0 temperance aid I
enlist hiiu, if not uuder the nob'e f
banner, under Some ore unfurled
in a similar Cause. But if the
pleasure of present bealth and
prospective long life, tile ease ahd
blessing of competence, aud tha |
une^timable boom of unsullied tep-
tary to make a list of the members , — —- — u. u, u.««u,ieu ,ep
and to assess aud collect for each jutat'011 bc not sufficient, we siy
one-fourth of the initiation fee I #bc°uld bi 'or the .
-MC U ,,o ,ud to ..po„ « I
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