The Cleo Chieftain (Cleo, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1903 Page: 11 of 14
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TRIBAL GOVERNMENT TO CLOSE IN 1906
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' RECOMMENDATION MADE FOR
IMPROVEMENTS IN LAND LEASES
inspector's Annual Report to Inter
lor Department — Enormous Increase
In Population and Resources of the
Indian Territory’
WASHINGTON: The annual report
if the United'States Indian Inspector
for Indian Terlrtory says the five civ-
ilized tribes in the Indian Territory
Including Indians and freedmen num-
bering 84000 people who hold over
19000000 acres of land The report
announces a material increase in popu-
lation in the territorp and calls atten-
tion to the duty imposed on the gov-
ernment' under legislation and agree-
ments to allot in severalty the lands
of the five civilized tribes After town-
site and other reservations have been
made and to wind up the tribal af-
fairs limiting the life of the tribal
governments to March 4 1906
Under existing conditions Indians
are authorized to lease their lands for
- grazing purposes or for agricultural
purposes for five years without super)
: vision or approval of the secretary of
the interior Continuing the report
says: '
‘‘There is no doubt that many In-
dians especially full-bloods have been
and are being imposed upon in tho
matter of leasing their lands Many
' agricultural leases are for an inade-
quate consideration and do not provide
the number of acres to be placed under
cultivation each year or what if any
fences or other Improvements shall be
placed upon the land Furthermore
It does not appear that any parties
furnish bond or give security guaran-
teeing the faithful compliance with the
provisions of their lease contracts On
the other hand many leases have been
entered into in good faith and parties
have entered upon lands placed the
same under cultivation and erected
Improvements thereon”
Legislation Is recommended making
It an offense to enter into leases with
minors full-bloods or adult Incompe-
tents without first submitting the
leases for the consideration and ap-
proval of some proper authority The
report recommends legislation provid-
ing for greater government supervis-
ion of the Chickasaw Indian schools
In view of their unsatisfactory condi-
tion and the large expense of their
maintenance - '
Recommendations also are made for
adequate road legislation and for plac-
Ing allottees in unrestricted possession
' of their lands
BUTTED AWAY FROM OFFICER
Negro Uses His Head Agalndt an Of-
ficer Knocking Him Down
MUSKOGEE: By using his head as
a battering ram James Pryor negro
from Wybark escaped arrest at the
hands of Paul Smith a posseman under
Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves and is
still at large
Reeves and Smith were-'searchlng
for Pryor but had separated in order
- to find out if tho man they sought was
In a clump of bushes As Smith
ntepped Into the road he Baw Pryor
hnd advanced toward him
The negro was armed with a Win-
chester rifle but did not attempt to
fire until close to Smith and his aim
Ihen was rendered inaccurate by
Smith knocking down the muzzle of
(he gun
Tho two scuffled for a time and
while so doing Pryor managed to strike
Bmltn a terrific blow on the head with
his forehead The white man fell to
Ihe ground unconscious and remained
lo for fully a half hour when he re-
vived and told what had happened
-- McGUIRE’8 BRIBERY BILL
Oklahoma’s Delegate Introducee a Bill
to Suppreae Official Corruption
WASHINGTON: Delegate McOulre
has introduced the following bill for
tho suppression and punishment of
bribery- and official corruption in the
territories of the United States '
“Be It Enacted by the Senate and’
House of Representatives of the
United States of America In Con-
gress Assembled ‘
"That If any executive legislative
judicial or administrative officer in
any of the territories of the United
States or if any member of the legis-
lative assembly or any clerk or eta
pioye of any legislature In any of tbe
territories of the United States or if
any territorial district tcrwnrhlp city
town village or other officer under
the laws of any of the territories of
the United States or any clock employe-deputy
or assistant 'in any such
office or any person receiving com-
pensation from any public fund be
loqging to the United States or an
territory or any of Its municipal sub-
divisions shall directly or indirectly
ask receive or tfccept or promise to
receive or accept any gratuity re-
ward compensation emolument - or
bribe upon any agreement or under-
standing express or implied that his
vote opinion or action upon any mat-
ter or question then pending or which
may be by law brought before or sub-
mitted to him for any action and such
officer- e'erk or elnployo shall be in-
fluenced thereby he shall be guilty
of a felony and upon conviction shall
be punished by imprisonment’ at hard
labor not exceeding ten years or by
a fine not exceediug five thousand
dollars or by both fine and imprison-
ment and In addition thereto shall
forfeit his office or employment? and
be forever disqualified from holding
any office under the laws of the Unit-
ed Slates or any territory
'' "Section 2 Tbl$ act’ Shall not be
held to repeal or suspend any of the
laws of any territory of the United
States upon the subject of bribery but
it is intended to be supplemental to
any such laws and to supply any de-
fects or omisslonh therein and prose-
cution may be Instituted and carried
on either under the laws of the Unit-
ed States or any territory under tho
provisions of this act but a convic-
tion or acquittal under the territorial
laws for the same offense and a con-
viction or acquittal under the laws of
any territory shall be a bar to further
prosecution for the same offense under
this aet"
WINTER WHEAT COMPARISON
Acreage of Kansas California and Ok-
- lahoma Shows a Falling Off I
w WASHINGTON Returns to the
chief of the bureau of statistics of the
department of agriculture indicate
that the newly seeded area of winter
wheat is about 2000000 acres a de-
crease of 6 per cent from the area es--tlmated
to have been sown in the fall
of 1902 The condition of winter wheat ’
on DDecember 1 was 866 as compared
with 997 In 1902 S07 in 1901 and a
nine year average of 927
The following table gives figures of
the principal states:
Kansas r 94
California : ' 89
Oklahoma 103
Average condition December 1 1 -
Thls-yr - Nine-yr overage
Kansas 87 92
California 97 96 '
Pklahoma ' 80 98
The newly seeded area of winter
rye Is provisionally estimated at 980
per cent of the area sown In the fall
of 19021 Tho condition of winter rye
on December 1 was 927 as compared
with 981 on December 1 1902: 899
on December 1 1901 and 966 tho
mean of the average for tho last nine
years -
California winter rye acreage as
compared with last year is 99 per
cent Averages of condition on De-
cember 1 forOallforula are: This year
97 190p 98 1901 90 nine years aver-
age 99
DOWIE AGAIN IN CONTROL I
Financial Showing Made Which Satis-
fied All Creditors
CHICAGO: John Alexander Dowle is
again In control of Zion City and all
Its industries This turn in the affairs
of the head of the Christian Catholic
church followed a financial showing
which satisfied ‘all the creditors who
Immediately made a formal motion be-
fore Judge Kohlsaat to have the re-
ceivers appointed by the United States
district court a week ago discharged
As no objection was offered to the mo-
tion by any of the creditors Judge '
Kohlsaat granted the request and Re-
ceivers Blunt ’ and Currier were' dis-
charged While the receivers have
been relieved from further duties at
Zion City the bankruptcy proceedings
are still maintained - It is likely how-
ever that these will be dismissed in a
day or two or as soon as the creditors’
committee appointed Monday has an
opportunity to report on the advisa-
bility of accepting Dowle's offer of set-
tlement This provides for payment
of all merchandise accounts within one
year and the governing of notes in the
meantiihe bearing five per cent inter-
est By tbe terms of agreement Dowle
has agreed td pay ail the expenses of
the receivers Tbe retirement of the
receivers from Zlbn City appeared to
please all parties concerned 'Dowrle
who was In court with his represents-
tlves appeared jubilant over the turn
in his financial affairs Attorney Ettle-
son who filed the original petition
said he was agreeable to a discharge
of the receivers on terms which shall
give his clients an opportunity to get
fdll payment of their claims Attor-
ney Apmadoc representing the only
secured creditor Samuel Stevenson
said his clients’ interests are now well
protected’ and there will be no occa-
sion for demanding an immediate In-
demnifying bond ' ' '
AIR-SHIP COMPLETE WRECK
Prof Langley’s Second Attempt Proved
a Dismal Failure
WASHINGTON: Unde1 weather
conditions which were regarded as
perfect the Langley air-ship or aero-
plane was given a second trial a short
distance from Washington down the
Patomac the result being tbe complete
wreck of the alr-shlp- Everything had
beenViTeadine8s for the trial for some
days so that it was felt that all thut
was needed for the test was tbe right
sort of weather and wind These con-
ditions presented themselves and the
test was made uhder auspicious condi-
tions On the word being given ‘-to
launch the areo-plahe it glided smooth-
ly along the launching tramway until
the end of the tramway was reached
when on being left to itself the areo-
plane broke In two and turned ‘com-
pletly over precipitating Prof Charles
M Manley who was operating it into
the icy water beneath tne tangled
mass A number of launches contain-
ing newspaper men and others imme-
diately steered for the spot' but be-'
fore they could reach Prof Manley
one of bis assistants leaped overboard
and brought him aboard tbe houseboat
on which the launching tramw&y was
laid Prof Langley was present to
witness the test and appeared crest-
fallen when he ‘ saw the product of
months "of study and labor’ combined
with an enormous expenditure of mon-
ey disappear beneath the water close
‘o where he was standing aboard a
Uig -
Sold Mortgaded- Property
MUSKOGEE: T‘ J Welch who gave
testimony to "Clinton ‘ Rogers Wood-
ruff tending to show a coalition be-
tween employes of the Dawes commis-
sion and real estate 'agents was ar-
rested at Wagouer by Deputy United
States Marshal J S Brown on a
charge of grand larceny Complaint
ag tfnst Welch was made by the stock-
holders In the Wagoner National bank
an 1 they alleged he has disposed of
se- aral head of horses and cattle he
hail mortgaged to them for $393
We’?h failed to give bond
- BANKS 8HOW UP WELL
Twin Territories Increase Exceed that '
of - Any 8tate
- WASHINGTON: That the national
banking business In Oklahoma and' In-
dian Teritorles is prosperous is con-
clusively shown by a statement just
made public by the comptroller of the
currency ' From March 14 1900 to
November 30 1903 eighty national
banks vvero organized in Oklahoma
with a total - capitalization of $2245-
000 In Indian Territory during the
same period there were seventy-seven -national
banks with a total capitaliza-
tion of $2420000 -
Of the eighty national blinks organ-
ized in Oklahoma during this period ' '
seVenty-one had a capitalization of less
than $50000 each footing up a total
of $1795000 capital stock In' Indian
Territory there were sixty-four banka
in this class organized "with a total
capital stock of $1665000 Nine na-
tional -banks were organized In Okia- ‘ -homa
with a capital stock-of $50000
or over fpr each bank the aggregate
capital stock of the nine banks being
$650000 - There were thirteen similar ‘
national banks organized' lu Indian
Territory during the same period with
a total capital stock of $775000 i
The increase in the growth of na-
tional thanks In Indian and Oklahoma ’
Territories exceeded that of any state -in
the union (
The report also gives some valuable
information with reference to national
banks organized throughout tbe en-
tire country - In November 20 national-banking
associations with aggregate
capital of $785000 were organized of
which IS with capital of $460500 were
banks with individual capital of less
than $50000 and 2 with capital ol
$325000 banks with individual capital
of $200000 8l $125000 respectively
In corporatiug the organizations of
the month with those effected since
March 14 1900 the tptal number ol
organizations to date is 1785 with au-
thorized capital of - $105278000 the
bond deposit as ’ security for circula-
tion amounting to $25468350 Class!-
fled by capital 1166 of the -assocla-’
tions with aggregate capital of $30-
408000 of $74870000 with individual
‘capital of $50000 or over An addi-
tional classification shows that there -have
been chartered 1009 banks of prt-
mary organization with capital of $54- ’
464500 568 with capital of $3G8G0-
000 reorganizations of state or pri-
vate banks liquidated for the' purpose
and 208 conversions of state banks’
with capital’ of $13953500
At the close of November there
were in existence 5159 national bank-
ing associations a net increase of 1-
542 since March 14 1900 additional '
capital $150024000 bonds $140014-
360 circulation $166704249 the lat-
ter with the exception of $60560 cov-
ered by lawful money representing
an addition to the circulation secured
by bonds Tbe authorized capital of
the banks on November 30 amounted
to $766332005 bonds on ’ deposit
$384625930 circulation secured by de-
posits of lawful money $38088495
tptal circulation covered by bonds and
lawful money $431106979
' CRIME OF LONG AGO '
A Resident of Aline Burned a Store
Nineteen Years Ago
ALVA: - Sheriff Oates arrested ana
turned over to officers from Ohio J F
Davidson of Aline upon the charge of '
having burned a store building and its ' -contents
nineteen years ago in Bryan
O ’ It is claimed that tbe building and
contents which were burned belonged
to Davidson and his1 brother and was
heavily insured and Davidson’s brother
was arrested on the same charge sev-
eral years ' ago pleaded guilty was
sentenced to two years lu the peniten-
tiary and died before his sentence ex-
pired Davidson Is said to have been
a young man when the'erhne is alleged '
to have been committed but now'has
a wife and several children - He has -
stood well in the community in which
he resided prior to his arrest having
been in the mercantile business It’
Aline until recently v
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Bishop, John W. The Cleo Chieftain (Cleo, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1903, newspaper, December 18, 1903; Cleo, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1859041/m1/11/: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.