The Reporter. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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INDIAN' TERRITORY, FRIDAY. MAY .
INDIAN ELOQUENCE.
MO. s>
OIL AND GAS LEASES.
, T. fU PAOl>EN.
PrwM«nl
W. a MILAM.
VIcc-PrMldcnt
CHAS. WVNDNAM. A l tant Ca*hl«r
JOHN D. SCOTT. I
Cublcr
Bank of Chelsea,
o 6 Chelsea, Indian Territory 1903
DOES' A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS!
and Respectfully Solicits Vour Account
• ~ . r n,i tike to run the law themselves.
'rnfmni i'.Tth?midit of this .a-' They must not do *jj[* j suutjoovaamsothick in cHnao
of .Be, .r.1 «-««" «< «
« « l«o°Z l no. «« .0. The, mu.t
LANGUAGE. . «« mcvcs either up-! to the court. Th.y mn.t ob. ..
Wednesday bein* Oklahoma ^ Cou.|th« M-ntton and |udtn.«.t .t_the
day red, hite nnd black cat. rend, ( , , ,he« conditions, l.y , legal tt^nn.l in or e
.itu loatructiou ,hia ** < ,bls environment what.. our I "btain ^Trither thrtrajU waSth ®r
oration delivered last «.k 4u,^ ^ b, .be en.pfoyn.ent of bi,ed .gen«..
DIRECTORS;
J T ncScaddcn, C. L. La~. W. P. McSpadd-n.
' , T nc3p" j M. sharp. W. J. Strange
W. O. Jlllam. ;
John U. Scott
Any valuable paper, you iJhK?ffiti^Twrtlorr
■a we have Itae best protection fcr t tiont -ou desire uia<le we desire ,
yoJ nwiUUV^% Vhh'ua We .emit for all collection, the Jay we receive
them.
c H ELSE A. I. T.
We carry the best stocks of.Lumber, Sbi-.gles,
Lath, Lime, Cement, Plaster and:paints ever
offered on any Indian Territory market, and
challenge comparison ou same.
William McCombs, (.icek Indian,
at Okmulgee.
"We, the representatives of a
once all powerful race on the
American continent are mtt hare
today to play our p rt ou the
ktage of life atid government.
"As I stand beture you a vision
rises before me in which I see the
piut, the present and the future.
The picture unrolls out of the
dim anu traditional past showing
the untutored fathers, mothers fcud
children of our race basking in the
suushine and uncorrupted happ:-
aess and health of that romantic
and poetic tiire when as God's
children, guided by wisdom banded
down in sons and story, and by
the lighU hung out in the skies
and the 1 ssons read from the book
of nature laying open before them
they lived aud died with the piua
iency, of duty, of right deman.is
of us that we meet the emergencies
of the hour; that we step into the
front rank of the moving millions
of this glorious land of ours; that
we buckle on the armor of valiant
by their out-ranking the other
man, because the court will come
in and wheu it ascertain* that the
weak, the poor, those who are
rery much beueaeh other men
have rights—the court without
we buckle on tae armor 01 v n m ~— o .... ... _,i:i r_
Americans and armed with the reference tot!*e ndivj«*****4 e
i>word of American citizenship cist
our way through the ranks of
poverty, ignorance and supersti-
tion with their concomitant atten-
dants of wautsand misery, shelter-
ed by the starry bauner of our
common country, proclaim our-
selves active uitmbera and earnest
workers in this 'government of the
people, by the people aud for the
people.'' _
PROPERTY RIGHTS.
At the session of the district
they liveo and uiea wub luc court st Claremore last week
light of f e morning, the generous d&e GiU in passing sentence
warmth «>f the meridian aud the J () g gkidinore, Win. May-
We Have
the right goods
*t right priced.
ted glow of the setting sun prompt
ingto love and marriage, the chase
and the deuce. Theu came the
white mtn with the civilization
and the push and dash and com-
mercial t nterprise born of condi-
tions exiting beyond the chang-
ing plains of the ev«r rolling sea
With pure hearts, free*from every
shadow of suspicion and guilt the
red in an tailed the coming of the
white man as a gracious gift frcrn
upon O. S. Skidinore, Win. May
field and John Pace who had been
found guilty of killing Ed Phillips
at Oolagali more than a year ago,
made some very timely remarks
regarding property rights, excerpt*
from which the Arrow copies
below:
Now, in a matter of thj3 kind
the court has to look at various
propositions. The object of all
U. s. Jefferies, Mgr.
Manufacturers of biSh Flour and Men,, and n.l kinds of Mill Feed
LEADING BRANDS:
*m«rle.n P-W- -"« ol E9ypt Patent.
O. K- ®econ Patent. Colien Parrel.
You will fi"d our Flour in all the principal stores of our
nail fur and trv it, and if it does not gi*e
SSsHErrS:
^"tart«Sonlnd°d°erpo,it« b Jim*. with .be farmer. Jirnr,
zzsx qulU,y y„uM.
Qeive. Yours for business,
Chelsea MHing Co. .
I —
< > All kinds of %
iLumber.j
Shingles, Lath, j
Sash. Doors, j
Blinds, Mouldings, \
Screens, Porch and «
i Stair Trimmings. \
% H.-,H Lindley, General Hauler. .ill atw.y. be at the I.utu- «
$> trcr Yard, ready jto wait on you. ^
% P. Q. Browning & Co. ^
white man as a gracious gift frcrn propositions. The object ot all
the Great Spirit, and welcomed this punishment uas s-.guificances
\v% white brother with open arms 1 rot only in wreaking upon the
to the fair, st lands laying beneath I individual punishment for what he
the circling blue of heaven's can - has ilone, but one of the main
• took him by the hand aud! objects is to deter similar minded
i.a him through the pathless for- people placed in somewhat similar
est, along the strging brooks, be- circumstances from, doing the
1 - • 4. 1 .i-i 1I1.0 arnft r A HI
iustate and reposess where the
jjossession ha been wrongfully
obtained by the stronger party.
Thete is no advantage in the at-
tempt on the part of *ny one, ex-
1 cept through the courts, by the
' intervention of twelve men who
coolly and candidly consider ell the
evidence in the case; of #11 the
claims by either party, and who
will come in and say which of the
two parties, in view of all the facts
and circumstances, are entitled to
possession, and then the court will
say what verdict shall be carried
into eflect and the party entitled to
possession, shall have his every
right without reference to who
has the immediate advantage.
Now then. it is my duty to give
those people under this law to
uuderstaUd by punishing you that
the law views this matter in this
way, and that so certaih is the law
in carrying into iffect its pro-
visions that if they violate the law,
no matter what their position, no
matter how much they have
suffered as individuals by reason
of their act, as in this case, that
the law will be vindicated and the
parties breaking the law will re-
ceive proper and due punishment.
Tahlequah Arrow.
WHAT A FARMER CAN DO
IN THE TERRITORY.
side the Kentle fl°wirg rivers- tr ,
the mountain tops from whence
v- could feed his enraptured vis-
upon broad plains, wh«ire the
.... prairie grass bending aud
swaying in music waves before the
gentle brec/.e, stretching faraway
toward the home of the settiug
suu
led
upon
lie took him by the baud and
him to his wigwam; fed liiin
the ?weet and nuturious
bread baked of the hand ground
meal of the Indian corn; spread
before him the meat of the deer,
the elk and the buffalo; made his
bed of the aromatic aud elastic
twigs aud branches of the pine,
the balsam and the sassafrass, cov-
ered by the rich and now priceless
furs capturcd in the hunt aud the
chase; gave him his fairest star-
eyed daughters to wed, aud count-
less broad acres for his home,
'and thus was the door opened
through which we passed from the
innocent, guileles?. happy past to
this eager, madly rushing strouu
ous present.
things of like character. And this
is a class of case that is of very
gteat importance to this country.
We are now entering upon an era
of allotment. Many lands in this
country are being sought by one
or more individuals. There is
nothing that excites human pas-
sion so much as what they consider
defense of their rights of posses-
sion in land. Many of the blcodj
encounters in the history of our
nation, between individuals, have
come abont from the attempt on
the part of those who think they
have the right to the possession.
People forget, in the heat of con-
tests of this kind, that the courts
are here for the purpose of settle-
ment, and undertake to fight each
other, thinking thereby to get the
advantage. They forget, if they
would stop to think, they forget
to think that in the Uuited States,
with the system of jurisprudence
prevailing here, that no advantage
whatever is obtained in this way.
Oft times, I think, that the old
adage iw much quoted by lawers
••Looking about us today we | even to this day, has been one of
stand entranced as we contemplate. the most hurtful, so far as these
the wondetous metamorphosis,1 encounters are concerned, ont ot
the vast and almost indescribable | the most hnrtful influences—the
changes brought by the hand of j a.'age that "possesion is nine
man since the whito man first points iu law." The time was
rapped at the door of the red man. | loug ceuturies gone, when tnat
Countless hamlets, villages, towns , expression first came into use,
aud cities uow dot the laud once , when people went about the
if Yell Co To The
li 5C.1 uu -
Elite Barber Shop
JOHN L. P*3**l*TOK.
The employes a*e experts aud peasant.
We Keprticnl lha l inett Laundry iu the Couutry.
owned aud completely dominated
by th« Iudians. Eudless stretches
of steel rails now bind the Atlan-
tic to the Pacific ocean, the tropi
cal sunlit gulf to the .Arctic regions.
The demon locomotive with pufis
and ear-splitting scream*, rushes
madly from city tocity, lroin ocean
to ocean, the s-uoke of numberless
forges, foundries and factories uow
I mount the ethereal starways of
Ithe skies; the schools, the c lleg-.-s,
the churches and the cathedrals
are traiuiug ths mind aud com-
forting the souls of many millions
red, white and black of the sri<
cjnutry, and the strong, man with
the strong and iron hand, who
could obtain advantage of his
weaker brother and got possession
would be upheld iu it, but that
time has passed. While, to a
certain extent, the adage is true.]
lit isn't with references to the ob-
taining of illegal possession, be-
cause the courti will intervene,
will ascertain every right be has,
and the man who is in possession
and ought r.ot to be, he will be
He can raise from 200 te 300
bushels of sw«et potatees or 100 to
400 bushels of Irish potatoes to
the acre, and for $100 he can
build a house that will keep them
the year round.
He can plant one acre of arti-
chokes and fatten fifty hogs on it.
The hogs can do their own dig-
ging and waste nothing.
He can raise all kinds cf stock
100 per ceut cheaper than it can
be done farther north.
He will not have to fertilize his
land to make it yield a good har-
vest. But, as in every other
country, fertilization pay# good
returns npon the cost.
He can m#ke a living easier-
than in any other place in the
Union, and at the same timt en-
joy a more equable climate.
He can run his farm wtthout a
mortgage on it.
He can ratse a fitier fruit, ft
greater variety and more of it than
ia any other country iu the world.
He can have vegetables on his
table the year round,
^He cau plant one acre in cane
and make 200 gallons of beautiful
clear syrup with uo sorghum
twaug to it.
He can raise four tons of clover
hay per acre, and the grouul does
not have to be seeded but once iu
five years.
Bees require no attention further
than takiug what honey you wish.
Five tons of German millet is
not a large yield for a year per
acre. "
Wet land sown in red top, forms
an everlasting meadow of the
i nnest hay in tae world.
Oaebale of cotton is a fair yield
on cotton land, thongh one and
one-half bales per acre is not very
unusual.
Ons hundred peach trees to the
I «cre and three to five bu?hels of
dispossessed and the party-en- ^ ^ treg ^ be
titled thereto given the possession. |
Pco^e lave uo right to uuder- ^P°J aucr
NATION PROMUW>AT*D.
Regulations and rules govern-
ing the leasing of Cherokee al-
loted lands for miniug oil and gas
have been received by the Indian
office at Muskogee from the secre-
tary of the interior. They have
been anxionsly awaited by the
hundreds of gas and oil men who
are desirous of developing the oil
•nd gas fields of the Cherokee
nation. The regulations provide:
All leases must follow the form
approved by the interior depart-
ment and must provide that only
so much of the surface of land de-
scribed us may be necessary to
carry on the work as contemplated
shall be occupied by the lessees.
All lessees must give bond guar-
anteeing payment of royalties and*
rents. The bond schedule fo*
lows:
Forty to eighty acres, $i,oco;
eighty to 120 acres, $i,5°o; 120 to
160, $500 additional. The secre-
tary « an raise the amount if he
deems it necessary, no lease shall
be sublet, transferred or assigned
without the consent and approval
of the secretary of the interior.
All leases shall provide for the
payment of advanced annual royal-
ties in sums not less than 15 cents
per acre per annum, for one and
two years, 30 cents for three and
four years, 75 cents for fifth and
each succeeding year for the term
the lease is to run. AU leasee
should provide for„the payment el
a royalty of 10 par cent of tte
value of all crude oil extracted
from said land to be paid monthly,
on or before the 25th of eech
month in which it is produced end
the average value of.the oil during
th month iu which it is produced
shall constitute the criterion far
computing the royalty.
The royalty on natural gas shall
be fixed by the secretary at the
end of each year or oftener, in his
discretion. All lessees will be re-
quired to keep full and correct
accounts of their operations aad
make report thereof promptly at
the end of each month to the lessor
aad secretary. The right is given
to prospect for extra pip? store,
refine end remove all such oil and
natural gas to use as much land ss
is necessary, *lso right to obtain
enough water from the land and
use natural gas or oil for fnel tt>
carry on operotions. The lessor it
given free use of gas to light his
residence If the lessee fails te
pay the per acre royalty, sixty days
after it is due, the lease.becomes
void. The lessee must agree to
exercise diligence in siuking well#
of oil and gas, and operate samel
in a workmanlike manner. He|
must commit no waste and
surrender property at thejtermina-
tion of his lease; he shall not te-|
move any buildings or imj
provements except tools, boil
pipe lines, pumps, drills, engil
tanks and machinery. The 1"
shall not allow any nuisance
mitted on the property nor an^
intoxicating liquor sold or gii
away. He must plug abandoi
wells so as to effectually, shur
all water above the oil
horizon. Amounts due fo*
ties shall be a lien upon imj
ments, tools and
machinery. If the leases
reasonable and bona fide effort j
find and produce oil in peyi
quantises and such effort is
succrssful, he may at any
thereafter, with the approval I
the secretary of the iuteriot,
reudcr and wholly terminate
Ic.ise npon the full payment
performance of all existing
ligations, provided, however,
1 tliti approval of such suirei
the secretary will be returned
during the time his appro
the allieuation of the lai
required.
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