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TERRITORIAL NEWS
Tho Choctaw will be running into
Ardmore by Marcli 15.
An effort is being made to unito North
v. ml South McAlester.
OKLAHOMA. Sheriff Suiltli anil Deputy Berk «* Anu-
I durko KU1««I White Arreting Koliber,.
• Anadarko: Sheriff
i uiil Depnty Cieorge Beck were both shot
mil killed in attempting to an est two
Hiighway robbers, eight miles west of
Anadarko.
It was reported to ths sheriff's office
last evening that some iwrties going
home from the church had been held up
Old robbed just west of this city. The
sheriff made all the investigation ho
A lodge of B. P. O. E. has been in- j .paid last night and this morning to
utitnted at El Reno. ! {ether with Deputies Beck and Briggs
I o.> ivent in pursuit of the robliers, over-
An Artlmore woman, aged 82 >cars . ^ ^ m ^ hu%
draws a Mexican war (tension. miles west.
Lawton is to have its flint, term of j In attempting to ent4«r and arrest
court in February, In-ginning on the he robbers Sheriff Smith was idiot
.,4tjt " hrough the breast and «hed ui a few
— minutes. Depnty Sheriff Beck was also
The waterworks and electric light <ii0t through the breast and his left arm
extension propositions were both voted ihnttered. Briggs was not injnml.
'.town at Stillwater. After killing the sheriff and deputy,
, . 7 , ,, . he robbers robbed the persons of the
An examination is to bo held atOnth- j ^ ^ thou nitt(1(, their escape.
n« on February 18 for the position of ; sheriff Hmith inmle n dying effort to
assistant printer in the railway mail, irrpflt highwaymen and shot several
service. holes through the doors and walls of the
Perry has raised *500 to send a rep j m %hting them. After
resentative to Washington to work Deputy Sheriff Beck h.*! Ins Hrn shat-
r«opl«<«' Preliminary Knurl us.
Oklahoma City: The preliminary
examination of W. T. People* for the
murder of Engene F. McLaughlin was
Frank Smith conducted before Judge Campbell and
brought out a goodly number of people.
The prosecution introduced two wit-
nesses, Coroner Street and Mr. Haley,
in whose store the shooting occurred.
The attorneys for the defense did very
little at crom-examining and introduced
no testimony in the prisoner's behalt
and the theory upon which they will
work is not known, nor will it be un-
til the ease comes up for trial at the
district court. At the conclusion of
the testimony the jndge ordered Peo-
ples committed to the custody of the
sheriff subject to the action of the dis-
trict court. One of the attorneys for
Peoples stated that no attempt would
be made to socure bail for a few days
yet.
v, for tor
I'owcr of Attorney.
( )kmi:lobe: In a talk with Govcrnoi
Porter recently ho stated that the deed
question for the Creeks was simple.
Said ho:
"I have not issued a deed to any allot-
ment in the Creek nation.
In the first plaoo there can be no deeds
issued until they are approved by the
necretary of the interior, and this ap-
proval has not been made up to date.
No deed* will be iasuod nnt.il they are
made out and sent to the secretary of the
Interior. He will approve them. They
will then be sent back to the Dawes
commission to bo recorded and after
this record has been made they will be
turned over to me and I will deliver
them in jiersou to the allottee, admiuis
trator or guardian.. I shall not recog-
nize any power of attorney, and a power
of attorney is not spoken of, neither is
it contemplated in any agreement, law
or regulation wherein the issuance of
leeds to Creek citizens is concerned.
•Before any deed is issued or before
tGANIZE
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The UellMH|wr cl—. .
Oklahoma City: What is probably , there are deeds issued, the people will
against the closing of the land ofHco
there.
tered he still continued to fight the
robbers until he was killed.
A large jioese of men has been organ-
Alvin Elliot, 4r> years of age commit- lZ0<i H11(i Kone from here in pursuit, and
ted suicide by hanging at his farm near |y]V?hing will, in all probability, be the
Waukonis. He had an action peuding f'nf<, „f robbers if captured alive,
iu court for divorce. Frank Smith has made an able fear-
The epidemic typhoid fever that ha.||l*s " .d TT TT* It
idly dying out. i land county for a considerable time.
The Oklahoma, Texas and Gulf rail- i Governor Ferguson offers a reward of
read purchased forty acres of what is i j-,00 for the arrest of the murderers of
known as the McCormick additions , to the ofticcj-s. The robbers are thought
Oklahoma City. to be five of the uncapturod Leaven-
worth prisoners.
Tams Bixby, chairman of the Dawes
commission, who had an operation for
appendioitis at his home in St. Paul,
i Minn., is very much improved.
The check forgers defrauded Shawnee
butchers with bogus checks drawn ou
local lumber companies. The scheme
wa6 worked at Guthrie aud Perry.
the most interesting and sensational
case ever before a court in Oklahoma
county is the case against "Dr." Delis-
spar and the Chapin girls on the charge
of blackmail preferred by Post Office
Inspector Bee be. The court room is
crowdctl and the testimony for most
part iB too racy for publication.
Prof. DeBarr, occupying the chair of
receive sufficient notification by adver-
tisement and otherwise that a certain
uumlier of deeds have Iteen approved.
Not oue deed will be given to a Creek
ritizen clandestinely or secretly, and it
will all be done as ojienly as public acts
it the executive head of the nation, and
I want the newspapers to understand
this. It is a criminal act to secure these
chemistry and pharmacy at the univer- Were of attorney and through them
versity was called upon to give the eon- , fnide or transfer the land that has not
tents of a bottle of medicine used by yet been deeded to the Creek citizen.
>lisspar to gain control of the girl in B is publicly known that persons in
the case. The professor claims the the Creek nation are purchasing allot-
.... <vAM.,/\na nihil linva mado un.
liquid contained "cantharidiu, about
four-tenths of one per cent; tincture of
capsicur; ginger, a trace of camphor
and a trace of morphine."
The testimony in the care is vile from
beginning to end and is no credit to any
of the parties mixed up in it.
ments from jiersons who have made se
lections ot land against which there is
ao contest. The parties purchasing the
selection have required the delivery of
the allotment from tha allottee with
power of attorney to receive the deeds
when issued.
From the above it will be seen that
r tUt (il'OWllltf III OklttllOIUH.
The experiment station at Stillwater
has been investigating methods of grow
ing and storing potatoes and has report
Ml results in a recent bulletin.
The methods followed by potato grow
ers of Pottawatomie county, where
! large quantities are grown for market,
i are briefly described. The soil of this
A train robbery was reported on the , district i H saudy loam with a porous
Kansas City Southern near Red Lands, j rabsoil. making it an ideal potato soil.
I. T. The robbers received no money Th<> ian(\ plowed in early winter and
the. express safe contain ?d none. t),e planting" is done as soon as danger of
-, lt , hard frosts is past, usually from the
Less than OO.OOOucresofland belong- flf Foh to the flrst of
ing to the Otoe- Missouri and Ponoa ^ <jf thp pUnting ^ done
Indians wd in all probability be thrown ^ ljulteWt the seed from
open to settlement within the next year. ; to oif?hpru inphes ap(U.t in rows
S. H. Radebaugli, appointed postman i about three foet apart.
ter fourteen years ago at what is now i Triumph is about the only vane-
Oklahoma Citv, visited the town this ty planted and thu seed used is either
week after a long absence and thought from the second crop of the previous
he was in Kansas City. T!" °r b. inJP°ft4'd trt™ the "orth:
I ijultivation in shallow and frequent aud
Representative Curtis has introduced discontinued when the potatoes tire
n bill in congress permitting heirs of In-! about half an inch in diameter. Dig-
dians who have received allotted lands ging is done by machinery and the po-
to sell such inherited allotments which tatoes are sold ai once. The crop is
when conveyed shall become taxable. J marketed in June and a second crop is
H. H. Kohlsaat, for a number of years tl0 (leeds AviU l)6 iHRlled to anyone having
editor of the Chicago Record-Herald, ; a poWcr 0f attorney, and those parties
has resigned the editorship of that jiaper. wj10 jmye mivanced money to Creek
INDIAN TERRITORY BANKS. ^"0°"!^".fS
The fteaource* un«i i.iiibiiitie* Kx« ee«i much money, as there is no way to eom-
$i .ooo,o«o—A im-reime of no rcr t ent. lx!i the allottee to return the money.
Washington: Tlie comiitroller of j u*wr a mcva/ map
the currency has just received reports 1 " "AVt n NtW ivi«r.
from the fifty-four national banks in TUt. < on„,y Map for the Iiulian T«rrl.
Indian Territory, showing their comli- tory Heady for Approval.
tion at the close of business on Tuesday Miskooee: Soper's county bill has
December 10, 1301. For the first time accorded the dignity of being
in the history of the territory the re- jointed on the several maps of the ter-
sonrces and liabilities of the national i-itory preparatory to forwarding the
banks exceed $10,000,000. Tbis is an in- niaps and the type-written bill to Wash-
crease timing the last year of over iUKfon. The markings of the counties
$$,000,000 or nearly 50 i*t cent, and in- ■ haT(< been done by a government cin-
dicates the rapid development of the pioyo und it is a really a fine job— beii^g
territory now taking place. done in colors. The entire territory is
The loans and discounts of the fifty- divided into thirty counties with the
four uatioual banks mi December H' | Seminole nation forming a county all
amounted to $8,510,841.85. The in-1 by itself.
crease in the loans and discounts during jn the proposed bill the Cherokee ua-
the past three months is a little over half I jjon is given six counties, the Qnaw-
a million dollars. paw nation one, the Creek nation eight
Tht principal items in the t\v£> at - imj ji,,, Chickasaw nation ten counties,
counts us shown in the rejxjrt are as The county seats named in the Creek
follows: uatKn tin- Muskogee. Wagoner, Ok-
nicosrucF.s: tnnlgee, Sapidpa and Holdenville. In
Loans and discounts, $5.'3S(>,air .SK;. tjje Cherokee nation Vinita, Tahlequah,
Overdrafts, fl,l09,r>81> 12; U. S. bonds (Claremore. Nowata. Piyol- Creek, Salli-
The Single Statehood Press Association is Formally Organi-
zed and Prepare for United. Action.
Oklahoma City : The editors of the fb^^n^nwt«°tlifimn mid who hav«
two territories, according to call, met
and organized the Single Statehood
Press Association of Oklahoma and In-
dian Territory. The object of tliiB
association, as its. name indicates, will
lie to insist upon the powers to admit as
one state tho twin territories. For the
furtherance of this cause the editors of
both territories have perfected au
organization which will use its best
efforts in that work.
Tfce meeting was held in the city
club rooms and the morning sessiou
was called to order by Secretary A. L
Kates, of the Claremore Progress A
committee was appointed to prepare a
short memorial to congress on the sub-
ject. of single statehood, consisting of
F. F. Lamb, of the Okmulgee Capitol-
News; Robt. A. Neff, of the Blackwell
Daily News; Harry Gilstrap, of the
Chandler News; F.F. Fox, of the Ard-
more Appeal; R. C. Echols, of the
Mangum Star, and Lou Wliorton, of
the Perry Sentinel.
At the afternoon session President
Niblack, of Guthrie, was present and in
the chair. The election of the iierma-
uent, officers resulted as follows:
W. H. Walker, Purcell Register,
president; Robt. A. Neff, Blackwell
Daily News, vice-president; Mrs. W.
H. French, Chandler Publicist, treas-
urer; and Roy E. Stafford, Daily Okla-
homan, secretary.
Following the election of officers the
fonual program was taken up. Two
very able papers were read, the first by
W. H. Walker, of the Purcell Register,
on "Advantages of Single Statehood to
Indian Territory," and the other by H.
B. Gilstrap, of the Chandler News, on
"Advantages of Single Statehood from
the Publisher's standpoint."
L. G. Niblack, of the Guthrie Leader,
delivered a short address on "The Mis-
sion of the Single State Press Associa-
tion," in which he snggested that an
excursion be arranged to Washington
this winter or next spring of represen-
tative men from the two territories for
the purpose of urging single statehood.
He stated that he had already taken up
the matter of rates with the railroads
and was informed that tho expense of
the excursion party, in the event it
numbered 160, would be $58 per capita.
A committee consisting of L. G. Nib-
lack, of tho Guthrie Leader; A. L.
Kates, of the Claremore Progress; H.
B. Gilstrap, of the Chandler News:
1 planted, tliti culls from the first crop be - • to secure circulation. $840,350; Due j ruw jror Quawpaw. Wyandotte.
Tha democratic press association of nHei for seed. Good profits are i from national banks (not reserve agents), The towns for the counties in the
Oklahoma is a recent organization with ' i-etUiased and the industry is developing | $183,001.48: Due from state banks and Choctaw and Chickasaw nations have
R. C. Echols, of Mangum, president, rapidly.
and L. G. Niblack of Guthrie, secretary. 'J
The next meeting will be held in Okla-!
_ iiii^'UT't" , i tr u a
been allowed by the government of the Unltetl
HtRttw and witn tho sanction of Uor Federal
to make th«jo Investments and M.oul.l
long since have rwetv<*l some
your hands. Their children
to grow to manhood and womiUit)00d in iW""?
anoe and consequent crime for want, of seho'il
facilities. These people have eourU. wl'W .
owing to their numerical Insufficiency anil
lack of Jurisdiction, are in effect <u> alwolut"
denial of justice. Thesie people i-onie of tin.
Iwst AriKlo-Suxon blood oftlie Kta*«w and
been looking to congress for t eller for many
*'we do not lose sight of the emlwrrnssment
< nus. d by existing treaties %Wth the Indians,
but we (to claim thnt the suffering* ot thos«
who have enjoyed, and who ure able to appre-
ciate Is-tter conditions, is m) much greater,
when considered ill connection with ft com-
parison of the numbers of the whites and In-
dian residents as to justify rudical measures
f°wvlregard the proposition now s^oro f u-
gress to now admit Oklahoma and and Indian
Territory by piece meal ns unfavorable to tun
best interests of the two territories
Wherefore, we, the Single Htntehood Pwis
Association, repnxenting the M-ntimcnt of
over four hundred newspapers publisiu-d iu
Oklahoma mid Indian Territorv. endorsing th«
memorial adopted by the irfnskogee Btaalo
BtatehiKid Oonvention. do most nwss-tfully
petition a careful consideration of this mem-
orial, which is hereby most respectfully sub-
V. F. LAMB.
Capitol-News, Okmulgee, Chairman,
ROBKUT A. NEFF. m ^
Blackwell Dully News.
i.ON WHOHTON.
Perry, O. T., Kentinal.
.1. II. CLAWwON. _
Holdenville, I. T.. Trlbaao.
K. FINIB FOX,
Appeal, Ardmore, I. r.
MKS. W. H. FRENCH,
Publicist. Chandler, O. T.
B.C.ECHOLB, , ^
Htur, Maugnm, O. T.,
Committee on Memorial
CRUTIS BILL UP.
Congress Is Considering the Hill for til*
Indian Territory.
Washington : Representative Curtis
appeared before the house subcommittee
having in charge the bill providing n
territory form of government for the
Indian Territory. Mr. Curtis made a
strong argument against the establish-
ment of a full territorial form of gov-
ernment for the Indian Territory at this
time, stating that it would seriously in-
terfere with existing conditions, result-
ing in confusion rather than in older.
He advocated as a substitute his bill
recently introduced giving the Indian
Territory a governor, secretary and
delegate in congress. These officer, could
be created, argued Curtis without dis-
turbing conditions, and at. tho samo
time afford the people of the territory
facilities heretofore lacking for proiier
representation before congress and the
departments.
He explained the progress of the work
homa City February 28.
! in bank, $581,5(W..%; Five per cent re-
I>e*er es tlie Ilealb Sentence.
Ardmore: Tne trial of the negro
I brute, Rufns Billion, charged with the
E. W. Kiinber, of the Hobart llepnb- murder of a six year old negro child
lican. has been appointed as au houorary ! showed that criminal assault had been
commissioner to tho St. Louis ezposi- j made upon the person of tht- child be-1 jp^^n7nnd^thtreasWy, $42,04 ,5f):
tion for Kiowa county, and Henry D. ! fore she was murdered and that Binion j |j0,00i),8851.12.
Dodd of Anadarko, to a like position afterward tried to bum the hotly to ' 'liabilities.
from the Caddo country. cover the crime. c itfl] st<x,k paidin, *2,1«.VH<,: Snr
— The '***"* 4-Ke* <uin<\ toait nhlr ntlf TI T. I 1 1 .....
Anadarko wants the government to | teeu
give it a citjT park. West of tho tovsni > n^fi^y
site between the Indian allotments and RufnR' bIiuou "will receive the death
the railroad there is a tract of forty Heiltenoei Rnd never. i«rhai , has a , , , hfUlkors. m.-
acres of bottom land which tho citv j prisouer more heartily (loKen'od it tliuii:
covets for park purixMes. has this beast. *
bankers, $44,070.88; Due from approved luiy been iiaule.l as far as South Mc-
reserve ageut* #1.006,022.!18; < 'hecks | AlJster, Ardmore. Pauls Valley and
anil other cash Items, 187,777.74; Bills Chickasha.
of other national banks. 181.887; Frac- The bill will lie printed and with the
lional jmikt currency, nicklef and ; 31HpK presented to congress tuul passage
cents, i^4<5,K44.84; Lawftd money reserve irmid this sessiou.
argt
An Kl Jleno Printing: Concern Cliorterod.
Guthwie: A territorial charter lias
:een issued to tho American Piintiug
jompany of El Reno, whidh is alleged
. Capital stock paidin, #2,10o,-llti; snr- ; -mniKuiy ^ , "v,""'"" *"
j jury in the ease was only out fif-1 . fnU(l< ^7o,a.W.41: -Undivided profits ! ° own property valued at ,fi24,000. The
minutes, returning a verdict ot | ^ „ aU(l tax(,s ^7 ,1! 5.3():' i «l'ital stock is fixed at 134,000. The
ty as charged. ' lhis means that, N ti ^ b k uoteH issnctl. ^,..750; lircctore are L. Rardin, Hemy Lassen,
D;..:,..;ii tuini.i..., tlwi .liuitli • rr t/ ii:,.i l' i\ irni«w.lir.iv <nw
1 Due to other national banks, $282,:'.! (.IK):
Merchants in some of the Indian Ter-
ritory towns ran up against a proposi-
tion when the interior department
called upon them to pay or killing *Thompsou* Pickens, a Chicka The average reserve
out. They all are paying he -4 of 1 * Lhl is 20.99 per cent.
jkt cent ou invoices required.
Clever V in-k liy Hanker. Heads OIT the iSuiita IV.
The manager of Jack Duubary, tlie t)klahoma Citv: Jordcu Gocch, a Ti lsa. I. T.: The Frisco r:/Iron-A
[I. K. Ricker, E. D. Humphrey and
A. F. Newell.
855.33: Due to approved reserve agents. Hoavy snow storms in~Kansas has
#48,517.81; dividends nnimid, 84.830; In- 1)viKhtened the prospect? for wheat in
I hat state.
ler- I petor McKilc ami W. C. Naunov. two dividual deposits. $5,510,841.85: Notes i ,
^.^11^^ <*
T., are m jail at Artlmore, charged with . |ll0sc |llv,ve meutioiieil, #8,5I3I>.54; Total
pugilist of Boston, lias made a proposi
tion to pull off a heavy weight fight at
UKlahoma City if local arrangements aJul {UTOeil ovt>r
The standiiipe of the waterworks at
;ilierman, Texas, has been reported in a
.langereus condition.
HunItlUK Hnsiness Increases 100 Per Cent.
Re]iorts t bowing the conditions of the
forty-nine national hanks in Oklahoma
colo ,l man. who Wk from i£Su«U.l,o.r . ,t tho <* ot bo to Ti**, Do-
r.^ed 011 a serious charge its new extension, ine new 111.1 -win
t,^ ti,.. I'nited Km* ; run from Mingo
:outh via Wtn r.nd 1 cember 10, 1901, having just been niaile
officer. At the jail nine forged eheehs ovUiionia Hunker* .Meet in Kan-.n yit
The county commissioners of (ireer ou gj Reno aU(i Oklahoma city i atiks OkIuUIojiaCity: Theexecutiv. iom-
cnunty, at their recent meeting, passed' wt>ri. lmu„i j„ his possession. The mitt< e of the Bankers' Aasociariou ol
a resolution to build a court house 011 rhocks ranged from $<15 down, Several Oklahoma met and decided to meet with
the rental plan, to cost $30,000. This letters belonging to people in lhis vicin- the Missouri and Kansas Bankers' As-
plan will obviate the increase of taxes. ity vw ^ fotm,i his possession.
The number of prisoners incaree
' in the Mnskogc© jail in tho past four
vears is 4.080.
; sociations in Kansas ('ity in Mnv. The
members of the committee are : 1 [, P.
,rated i Ho «>"^Mt«l that he robbed mail | Sterand IS' :-r'bKi«'-s, tinthi
f i at El Reno and this place. ! rie; Otto Shatte. El Rnio:W. - Me-
000,000 to $14,933,953.51, or nearly 100
per cent.
The total .individual deposits of the
forty-nine national banks in Oklahoma
aggregate $9,442,350.57. while the total
loaus and discounts amount to $5,854,-
'.'(i.'i. 87.
llniMly with, the tin
Oklahoma. City: A negro woman
(Jiffert, of Blackwell and ,T.H . Wb eler,
' Oklahoma City.
Kxtrn Session of ( oloruilo Lejflslntiire.
Denver: Governor Orman an-
The new oivrit liouse at Perry has .y . , tiounced that he will issue a call for a
K-en completely destroyed by fire.' The "'^'u^S^^ndstreet shot William V "'"v- \ . * -ix-cial session of the legislature to con-
loss exceeds $8,000, hut was ,«rtly cover- j s'irJ? ™ "^2 t rtlt itu J with a , AkUMOH l: 'i ,5' /°f ,MUsider the following subjects: The rev-
, d bv insurance Ti;o lire is sunnose.d Holhiud through the light liuig with a . Uvu caused by mcendmnes, destroyed enno bill, which was attacked by the
to have originated fn a a lighted cigar ,44 cahbcr < "It s revolver. Holland is thr business portion of Woodfottl, " corporations and has been pronounced
to ha\e origuiatt 11 ngnteu cigar, j bq. nfecssan!y fntaljy wounded, but snl:ln town northwest of here. Not n Jnnstitnrio,nd in nart bv the court*:
ferson
referred
tories.
BIG NEBRASKA METEOR.
. _ ^ , ,, .^. - ' ! ure for financing the Gunnison tunnel
, . .. _ 1011 named Levi Hurt are held awaiting jj p Hill, drugs, loss $1(500, insunuioc 1 1 „m.,.i for irrimvtinir uurnoses
Forest fires are reported m the Tus- the out colne of th(. man's injuries. ^ Several other builtUngsbumed. U °a a ^ ^ 1 1
koina district in the Indian Territory. _ . ' . —....
Asks for Hi (lit of Way Through Ft. s''l. Carnegie ?loncy Hut Arrived.
Th commissioners of Beaver countv Washinotos: A bill has been pre- Grrnr.1::: Ti e $20,000 donated to fhis
unanimously rejected the petition for a Keilt0(] ;u ti,e house which asks for the | city by Andrew Carnegie, is now on tap
1 as u ion as the pec-
construction
telegiapli line, a tract, of lanil one linn-j of the building on the corner of Ash
298 valid nnmeson the petition, although <lml fect ^ wi,Uh through Fort Siil! street and East. Oklahomaairenue. The
449 names were signed. military reservation. The bill also asks deeds to the hits were forwarded to Mr.
• . . ,mm. itrr n tract of lami in the reservation Carnegie and lie sent the money at ouc?\
Tha patents (some 2.,00 in number) w itl wi(Uh thr?e | Everything is now ready for the work
, soon as the architect is n*n '
unanimously rejected tne pennon ior a sent(,(] {n house which asks for the j citv- by Andrew Carnegie
special election to vote 011 the proposi-1 (>k]ahom<; City & Southwestern rail and can by draw nrpou as
tion of removing the county seat from ^ tj,e use of it* track, telephone sad' pie are ready to begin th>
Beaver to Guymon. There were only , tuiejnnph line, a tract of laiul one hun-. of the building on the 1
1 hundred feet in width and three Everything i
?f ^ Apache. Kiowa and Comi^nche fe,t iu length for a station, to begin as ,
aUottmen s \ o ee . . . I The bill contains clauses which provide with the pla
Waidiiii^onaiidaretoi^ gnenoutto.tl^^ uo iwrt of the land is to be used by J. K. Bennett and they pre,
the lnthans. a e ... except it he necessary for construction, very beautiful bujlding, bur all the de-
"hemlnghts are me n c j and when the laud is not so used it will tails are not completed necessary for
One patent is issued to each individual, States. bids to be submitted thereon.
Indian who received allottments.
I'eople Felt the l^irtli Tremble When It
Cauie With u '• reiuendoim Tliml.
Omaha : A meteor of prodigious size
struck the earth near Beaver City, Neb.
People ran from their houses, feeling a
tremor of the earth as the projectile,
struck. Railroad men 011 the trains
l'rom the southwest report having seen
the prodigy, which plowed a brilliant
course across the heavens. Several as-
ilans The plans were drawn i seit that the broad streak of light was
Bennett and tliev present a followed by a detonation as of distant
thunder. The path ot the meteor was
southwest, having its origin aim ;jt at
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Lon Whorton, of the Perry Sentinel, of the Dawes commission and provisions
antl W. H. Walker, of the Purcell Reg- of existing treaties with the Five Tribes,
ister, was selected to arrange for such ! the fact that lauds were net taxable and
an excursion if events indicate that it would not become so for ye irs yet and
would prove beneficial to the cause of j said that it would be almost impossible
single statehood. to raise sufficient revenue to maintain a
Short, timely addresses were also do- territorial form of government.
livered by Robert A. Neff, of the j His argument evidently put members
Blackwell News; J. L. Isenbcrg, of the of tne committee to thinking and.it is
Enid Wave, and Mayor T. F. Hensley, 1 probable that they may report the Cur-
of the El Reno Democrat. 1 tin bill instead of the bill giving a frti!
The secretary was instructed to w- territorial form of government to tlie
cure designs suggestive of single state- territory.
hood, to be carried at the masthead of -DC., r,r-cro\/ATinw
the papers of the members of the asso- TO OPEN RESERVATION.
elation. Considerable Tn!k AVhteh May l.eail t.i
The chair announced the ap]K>iiit- . Art ion.
ment of the following members of the j Washington : The proposition to op-
exocutive committee, who, with the cu the Otoe, Ponca and Missouri reser-
presiilent and secretary of the associa- various is being strongly advocated by
tion, constitute the executive commit-1 a nnmher of citizens of the territory
tee: J. H. Clawson, Holdenville, Tri- ^ llow jn tlie city. Dr. Southard of Perry,
hnne; L. G. Niblack. Guthrie Leader,. jlus hc-Cn here for the past week looking
and Mrs. w H. French, of the Chauil-; aftor the question. The Indians on tin-
ier Publicist. | reservations have already been allotted
The association then adjourned to their lands and are said to be favorable
meet at the call of the president. to the proposition to open the remainder
The following is a complete list of i to settlement. The residue lands in tho
the editors present: ; two reservations amount to approximate-
W. H. Walker, Purcell Register; H. , iy
one hundred thousand acres, and
B. (iilstrap. Chandler News; L. G. would provide homes for six hundred and
Niblack, Gutlirie Leader; A. I.. Kates, J twenty-five families. Tho Otoe, Ponea
Claremore Progress; < -has. F. Barrett, allf\ Missouri Indians nre the most higli-
Sliawnee Herald; Mrs. W. H. Frencli, jy civilized of any of the Indian tribes
Chandler Publicist; R. E. Stafford. ju the territory. Their reservation is
Oklahomau; Lon Whorton. Perry Sen- j located in one of t he best jxirtions of
tinel; R. C. Echols, Mangum Star; F. ou lain una, within two and a half miles
F. Lamb, Okmulgee Capitol-News; C. of the city of Perry. The continuation
W. Coombs, Lexington Leader; J. H. 0f the reservation detracts l'rom the de-
Claw son. Holdenville Tribune: F. l?inis yelopment of the country immediately
Fox, Ardmore Apiieal; O. W. MajX'S, a(ijoiniriK it and the people in that vi-
Lexington, You alls Doiiu$ : O. M. Ire- j cjnity are clamerous for some action by
lon, Sapnlpa Light; R. A. Neff, Black- • the government officers, which will op-
well News; M. M. Henderson, Tecum- eJ1 tho country to settlement. The dc-
seh Standard; J. B. rhoburn. Okla-1 partmeutal officials are favorable to the
home Farm Journal; A. G. Iwy. Still- proj:O(jiti0n to ojwu the resenat-iou, and
well Standard; G. B. Hulbert, El Reno | wjthin the next two weeks special agents
Globe; J. F. Eusley, Ardmore Ardmor-1 wiU be di8jmtohed to Oklahoma to ne-
ite; Ed. R. £ elt. Edmond hnterpnse: | g0t-ate a treaty with the Indians provid-
T. F. Hensley, El Reno Democrat; J. jn„ for tho sale of their residue lantls.
L. Isenberg. Enid Wave.
The memorial committee appointed j Flynn to Donate #730.
at the forenoon session reported as fol- Guthrie ; United States Attomej
lows, which was unanimously adopted: j gpeC(1 h(ui recoifed a letter front Con-
Memoriai to Cqngiess. pressman D. T. Flynn at Washington,
The Sinale Statehood Pri«s iinsoeiation. in ' „,v,i,.t, ilfl 1 hnt lin will <nv,>
session at OKIahonm City. O. T.. on this 14th | m Whichlie states tftat UOWUl gl\, ^ot
day of .lunuiiry, l'JO'.', do most rexpectfnlly toward the C hoctaw for Guthrie; $250
le^iotto^tw^STtaniee^trf^m^iS' iSti)Sthe toward the "Katy" for Guthrie; and
.-isterhiKsl of stnhw in the Union. Oklahoma; $250 toward the Fort Smith and«est-
Territory and i..- dun Territory as one «tate. ; frn. (;n.1.,.;.,
Oklahoma Territory, with a population of I pru 101 "Utnne.
fnllv fiOO.OOO, with 1111 mnessod valuation esti- i —■ —
mated at % 15(),0UII,0(X1. with the smallest per j Some Oklahoma Land Olltee Job*.
! washington: The president decided
M-ning thciuw lv^, luliy realm* th.- fact that. f0 reappoint P D. Healy reenter of the
has r<^«ch<^d that uttgnitwlo in population 11 1 . , ^ t>
and rt soum*8 whore if ix impOKsihh* to have a j Woodworil land OmCO, aud l^niory o.
government of "the people, for the people and , Browulee, register and Jacob V. Admire
the people of I-xennsinR the"lwlor!d°fr^h/«-1 roceiver of the Kingfisher land olfice.
in the selection of their puhHc officials and j8 intimnted at the department, that
' Your attention is colled to the deplorable ! Jolm E. W. Miller, receiver of the
eondition of 4*),<M) white residents of the In- Woodward office, will not be reappointed
diun Territory, who arc denied every guaran
fb'leaa-
tlie zenith antl r xtending to the horizon. I not yet over.
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The Missouri court of appeals has j q|^ WASHINGTON.
given a decision to the offect thut, the I
SUicido clause in the MaceaboeS W Ollld i I),.|,.-ntes Klcctrd by the Muskojfee Con.
not release the order from payment of j ventlon Have Gone to Washinuton.
ixilicies in that state. A woman, whop? | ARDMORE: The single statehood del-
husband was currying $2000 in that or- egates elected at tho Muskogee couveu-
der, was refused payment of jiolicy and j tiou ^ q g0ne to Washingron to nrge
the court gave her judgment for the j cnngress to t,liact legislation in behalf-
amount. ()f antonomy. The <lelebanon goes
Artlmore Oram! Jury. united for single statehood/with Okla-
Ardmokk: The grand jury which ha-;1 homa and will make a strong light tn
been iu session two weeks, has found! (Jjat <lircction. The senate committee
about 180 true bills, passed 15C and ex- . .. ,v . ., tl
, •. 1 i . , on Indian affairs will pivo the
amined 500 witnesses and their work is j .
non a he iring January 'J. .
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Burke, J. J. The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1902, newspaper, January 23, 1902; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc186411/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.