The Arapaho Bee (Arapaho, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1921 Page: 1 of 4
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PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF CUSTER COUNTY A WELCOME VISITOR IN EVERT HOUSEHOLD
ARAPAHO CUSTER COUNTY OK LAHOhllA JUNE 3 1921
VOL XXIX
NO 23
A Sample of Govern-
inally specified as the price! The Lee Lewis and family have moved
'eelrk not only called his superior’s to Clinton !
mental Claim Business 0 h hl"‘ but " nat "
ap his brief of the case called partic- Ore suspender button behind is
ular attention to it in writirr That net enough
This week we give a sample of What better investment for a great part of the brief never got before
governmental business t great grand child than to get the Congress nor has Congress ever yot The Custer City Courier will add
It is interesting now because we Irdians to burn a cornfild for him had a hint of a forgery existing a- Tew linotype soon
have just passed through a period' from 60 to 70 years before his birth mong the Fisher papers Neverthe- '
where cash down was apid in ftjures and plausibly lay it on United States les3 on the basis of the doublet prices’ George Frye has used the razor
and totally ignoring the clerk’s as- ss if summer was surely here
sertic n that the figures were mans- -
Everything Being De-
flated Except Taxes
Washington May 31 — “In one of for money or power choosing to give
the most practical and forceful edi- the administration the benefit of any
torials it has published in many doubt rather than take the chance
months the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ of handicapping those who were
recently discussed the very approp- carged wijh the management of mili-
riate subject of taxation’’ says the tary operations
Republilan Publicity ’ Association I
through its President Hon Jonathan' ?°" f he Arm“tl lce had
v he importance of re- r
- the war was over Congress acted as
that staggered the great big rich atd
strong - United States So when you
read that the House of Representa-
tives of Oklahoma City recently
stood up- and protected the people’s
money give them credit -
So you must also bear in mind at last in 1854 they got a hearng demand a much higher auunuvo — -- — — aibuuiai was puillbCU VUb III H Wttjf
President Harding anf Congress are They persuaded Congress to pass an than an y heretofore made by theon duty again He is out of the that would impress the minds of all cu 500 0(®n als lce’ Con8res
standing between us and 'bills filed act requiring the Auditor to re-exam- Auditor or myself” So he estimates hospital and doing nicely readers It is true as Editor Lo rimer ’nr A de
Lord of Issue may that hold out ine their case But this time they the crop at sixty bushels to the acre
faithful The sample follows: stumbled upon the misfortune of an (dohble what Florida acres produre)
Everything is being deflated ex- ‘h:LCUt °“t a
On or about the 1st day of Sep- honest secretary of the treaury (Mr and then virtuously only allows pay 8t tbo depsri Arapaho will soon cept taxes Everybody is economiz- The present Con-
hawa am niicfotiA n i Br“ss n&s not yet niSQe its record of
tember 1813 the Creek war being James Guthrie) and he spoiled ev- for only half the crop but allows bave an °d" station of their own
lthen in progress in Florida the crops ery thing He said in very palin lan- two dollars end a half a bushel for i-
herds and houses of Mr George Fish- gut ge that lhe Fishers were not only that half when then are ruity old rSe CoS3ma"n worka despite
a citizen were destroyed' either’ rot entitled to another cent but that books ard documents in the Con- the that he always keeps a dog
9 9 ' - af h!a Maafe
the Indians or the United States those children ef many sorrows and ressional library to show just what at bis m f
troops in pursuit of them By tha acuaqinted with grief had been paid the Fsher testimony showed before
M A Pidkett passed through town'
ling except the tax gatherer’
“As a rule the tax gatherer is one ' ‘ thT 6 18 ery in
of the tax spenders and naturally jbat expenditures authorized
his view point impels him to see the b J " f”00?1
necesity of higher rather than lower y ad"instratve
taxe The spender of public money ranch of th government It is un-
is impressed with the importance o a"d wLbe?ve tbe Editor of the
tbe service for which the money ia P°St admit
spent He magnifies its value to the L Iator refleCtl0n’ fto cbae
public and perhaps sincerely believes 8 responsi l l y of tax-
ing and spendning Congress is al-
! terms of the law if the Indians de- tco much already the forgery — viz that in fall of
jstroyed the property there was no Therefore an another v interval of 1813 com was only worth from $125 He 13 th® TV man ‘n tae county
'relief for Fisher but if the troops rest and silence pursued — an interval to $150 a“bushel Having accom- you wou 1‘c a shter
lestroyed it the Government of the which lasted four years — viz till plished thi3 what does lir Floyd' — A
United States was debtor to Fisher 1858' The “right man in the right do next? Mr Floyd (“with an ear-AebAA®
for the amount involved palce” was then
- George Fisher-must' have consider- John B Floyd
ed that tho Indians destroyed tne Here was a - master — - - r n
property because alchorgh ha lived was the very man to-euccor the suf- tirely new bill for the Fisher dam- A ” Public revenue and Its expenditure
several years afterwards he does not fering heirs of dead and forgotten ag and in this new bill he placidly e horse Ts a ' ood a8°' U m’lst come through the
appear to have’ ever made any claim Fisher They came up from Florida ignores the Indians altogether— puts 13 °
upon the Government - with a rush— a great tidal wave of ro par!lcIeof devlruction of the V rifv tnn
In the course of time Fisher died Fisher’s freighted with the same old Fisher property upon them put ev- ca" r‘ot b® misunderstood as stated that 'high taxes
ind his widow married again And musty documents about the same im- ea repending him of charg'ng them P ® steers at Oklahoma Citv I -'The edit?r of tbe Saturclay °ose methods and extravagant
way called upon to make up defeits
executive Cepartments have
excess or appropriations
by Congress
‘But this is a minor matter On
activity of private citizens who make the whole the ‘Past’s’ editorial is not
their wishes known in a manner that only sound uut timely It is true
‘high taxes means
mana-
n FisherT cornfields
isher’s new husband
gress for pay fori
backed up the Ipetit
depositions and affidavits
ported to prove that tne troops and fere the troops
entered -pursuit” corn at Bassett’s creex and uses it jaior' r jj wilscn had
not the Indians destroyed' the prop- He considered therefore' that what again to absoluteiy eWethe Jloss ca"°“" £ank' Dyer this week But ‘ S”whlt thPreiSfent and Members posible reduction
rty that the troop fhr ' some un- they destroyed must have conajttod of ’ edS "xeeJted Pe" "'reined befor he could say “cabinet to wmpertheH executivelepartmenU
icrutable reason 'delberately burned of the houses wth all thsir contents new crd ably ccnceivea-ana execuiea -4 i
7’ r T7I 4 n 8cal J 'asked for enormous sums of money to reduce their expenditures and then
iown “houses” (of cabins) Valued at and the Uqdor (the most tnf!ng part bill of Mr Floyd figures up as fol a v
jof the World War legislators in al- has other people’s money to spend
most every branch of Government is tery likely to seek means of spend-'
have been running hog wild taxing irg rather- than saving it A full
ard spending spending and taxing’ tieasury is always a temptation not
was ot the legislative branch of only to useful expenditure but useless
the Government that ran hog wild expenditure An elective means
a local Records will therefore of securing the earliest
of taxes is first
liquor'
600 the same belonging to a peace- of th destruction and aet down" at low - (I copy again from the printed
r-- and for practically unlimited author- cut the revsnue so that there will be
R H Thompson wa3 up fro ia on tbe representation that both no excess of funds in the Treasury
P M m InalnnAH WtmATT r
ible private citizen and also destroy- only -$3290 all told) and that the U S Senat - wlth ton any says Commissioner Wycoff - necesrary for the winning of to tempt Federal officials to incur
d various other propr-y belorg-n Gcvemmnt troops-Vhern dFOve them -fho 3 f U stippry unfelmble etc Thata waome doubt Gon-’oblViationa which the public must
m tne adn6'''iiffteri''BttrvOngfes? off and calmly proceeded to destroy the legal representatives of George -O0d recommend for Jake ' - - -
ieclined to believe that the troop3 ' Two hundred and twenty acres bf Fisher deceased
were such' idiots (after overtaking corn in the field thirty five acres of 1815 Fred Richardson ha3 put the roads
md scattering a band of Indians wheat and nire hundred and eighty To 550 head of cattle at back so that the travel is normal or
proved to have been found destroy- e!x head of live Etock! (What a sir- $10 $550000 Mre s0 Soon after July 1 he will
ng Fisher’s property) as to calmly gularly intelligent army we had 'in To 86 head of drove hogs 120400 commence some permanent improve-
:ontinue the work of destruction those days according to Mr Flcyd— To 350 head of stock ments
hemselves and make a compeltg job though not according to Congress in hcfc'j ‘ — 175000 -— 1 - -
if what the Indians had only com- 1832 ' -To 100 acres of corn on
nenced So Congress denied the pe- So Mr Floyd decided that ‘ the
dtion of the heirs of George Fisher Government was not responsible for To 8 barrels of whisky
gress granted practically alii requests eventually must pay”
INDIAN FARMER FIGHT
OIL NEWS
The Pringey oil well is down to
2500 feet It is four feet of hard
One time L D Curell and L C
Martin came in and filed some affi-
davits against Jim Avant as Indian surface and four feet of mud A
Farmer They had had some trouble little delay occurs nowon account of
Bassett’s Creek 600000 in just at this time Buchanan and wjth Avant over jeasirg Indian at-1 cable But this man Fingrey has
35000 Floyd went cut and they never got tachments W’hat tney swore to was’ put forth a noble effort there under
n 1832 and did not pay them a that $3200 worth of rubbish which To 2 barrels of brandy 28000 their money The first thing Con- a penty
ent -v the Irdiars destroyed but was re- To'l barrel of rum ' 7000 gres3 did in 1861 was to rescind the ( The affyavits were pigeon holed
We hear no more of them officially sponuble for the property destroyed To dry good and merchan- resolution cf I860 under -n Ar8paho for a few days But no-
mtil 1848' sixteen years after - the by the troops— which property con- dise in ttcre 110000 which Mr Floyd a een cip e"r‘ ly for a few days
iret attempt on the Tneasury and a sisted cf (I quote Jroirt the United To 25 acres of wheat '35000 Then Floy4 (and- ou ess e ( jj Dickerson an inspector
full generation after the death 'of States Senate document)— To 2000 hides 400000 of George Fishirjikewise) had to called a9 he wa8 checking Avant up expected of any set of men to get
he man whose fields were destroy- - Dollars Tofuraand hats in store - 60000 give up financial business for awhile A charge of agents had brought on1-" A
d Thb new generation of Fisher Corn at Bassett’s creek ' 43000 To crockery ware in and go into-the Confederate army a fight to diminate Avant
eirs then came forward and put in Cattle 5000 store 10000 ard serve their country I when Mr Dickenson made his nrs-
a bill for damages The Second Stock hogu 1050 To sttWj and carpenters’ I Were the heirs of George Fisher 8ion knoWn in that pohte manner of
Auditor awarded them $8873 being Drove hogs V 1204 tools -t M®-0 klled No’ fTheyTar® °'d 8Ch°o1 iEspectar and after “
Calf the damage sustained by Fish- Wheat ' 350 To houses burned and this very time (July b' polite delay to not look suspicous
The Auditor mid that thil test!- Hides I 4000 dertroy’ed — — 60000 seeching Congress through that blush- thege horrible affidavits of Curell s
mony showed that at least half the Corn oiT Alabama river - 3500 To 4 dozen bottles of wine - 4800 mg and diffident creature Garrett and Martin’s accusing him of high
&rr d“b7 MUM w- i°- -1 ”y
Hrfor the In Tour 1810I To 12 cr torn on ! o their inratlW bill l tom- pund out
knd of course the Government was That sum in his report Mr Floyd Alabama river 950000 ages for corn whisky d®ltJ®a Something had convinced the aged
iot responsible for that half -- call the “full value of the property To ciocs cf peas ' - ' by a gang of irresponsibly Indians ingpector a change should be made
( That waa in April 1848 - In De-dectroyed by the troops” He allows tedder et- - 325000 a o long attat even Government red there go he put on l8 glasses at
tember 1848 the heirs ot George' that sum to the starving Fishers to- A -
Fisher deceased came forward and gether with interest from 1813 From ' Total' -----$34 95200 intelligent track of it
sleaded for a “reviaion’f of their bill this new sum total the amounts al- To interest cn $22202 fren j — - —
'or damages The revision was mad9 ready paid to the' Fishers Were de- July 1813 to November ere h story - Any one who doubts it rn declare So he forthwith asked
out nothing new could be found in ducted and then the cheerful remain- I860 47 years and teur can send to the Senate Doeument of fce coud haye them So when as-
ihelr favor except an error of $100 der (a fraction under forty thousand Months $6305368 the Captol for H x aored 0f them as if such a crop eras
n tho former calculation However dollais) 1 was handed to them and To interest on $12750 from 21 36th Ccngress 2nd 8e8!° a d readily and easily raised he again
n order to keep up the Fisher fam- again they retired to Florida in a September 1814 ts No- fer S Ex Doe No I®6 t®"faid “Well Hi declare
Jy the Auditor concluded to go back condition'' of temporary - tranquility
ind allow interest from the date Their ancestor’s farm had now yield-
f the first petition (1832) to the ed them atlcyether' nearly sixty "kev-
gte when the bill :Ot damages was en thousand djllanx fn cash ' r
warded ThU sent the Fisher home Does the reader suppose tha't that
vember 1860 46 yesrs ‘ gress 2nd session and satisfy him-
and 2 months —l—:$36 31750 Belf The whole easels set forth) Monday morning be says 1 will
in the first volume of the Court of go down there and tell Mr Avant
Totaj ' tl 3332318 Clsime Reports I this administration will not keep
Arapaho’s oil prospec: is dead and
Custer City’s oil mai a fugitive from
justice Sorry but that is the truth
Don’t neyer call the man who drills
now a trickster He thinks there is
oil where he is drilling It is strike
oil or break with him
SWEET CLOVER
$133 32318 Claim Reports " —
He nuts’ "everything In this time It is my belief that as long as the him” Which he did Mr Avant in:
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n $8873 the same a mounting to those different Fishers were satisfied? dians destroyed the crockery or de- the he rs o e rge 3 ’
mms as -““-Let thd evidance how Then they strayed the fouy don bottle of irill stilll mak pilgrimrges to Wash- A telegraph office tied Just been
IngVesmc awarmirg up out of the fertile (urrsnt) wine When it came to Ington from the swamps of Florida lnstaued t Clinton A telegram had
Witcher Hatcher has sixty acres
J899794 Total $1787994
f "For an entire year the suffering
Visher family kept quiet-aven tati swamps of Florida with their same supernatural comprehensiveness in to plead for just a little more cash b(fen ient to Washington and a tele-
nedafuV fashion- Then’ theyold document! and beaelged Congress “gobbling John B Floyd was "ith-(on theb ‘bill 1 of gram had come
Vwoped down upon the Government one? more Congress capitulated on ’lout hit equal in his own or any f they ree®‘ydthf'aat
with their wrongs once more ’ That the first of June I860 jmd Instruct- other generation Subtracting from aeven thousand dollar ( they said it
'old patriot Attorr Qsneral To:icey ed-Mr ‘Floyd to overhaul these papers ths above total the $67000 already j was onIJ netful wntinK th® Job - Ind" Faer
burrowed through ths )nusty papers again and psy that bill - A Tras-:-pid to George Flsher’e implacable emment owed thera on that fruitf ul He believed h waa especially fitted
9f the Tlaheria end discovered ore ury celrk whs ordered to go thriugh heire Mr Floyd announced that the cornfield) ind aji lenir i uthey oowe Uach the Noble Kedrpan to till
'uqr chances for the desolate orphpna thbiSrpapers and report to UA Floyd Goversment was atHl indebted -to to come they will fina ® rrettu the soil -Ha was appointed March 81
back " dismissing
Avant i v f
Frank Fillmore had long been
tic eaiuv iuia icjjfuuiiiK iiiiu vi & — ' j —
y and by jiearly twenty years af- mortal cornfields of their ancestor with burning the cabins and drink- f !! a a °ma y ening Post is hardly correct in his gement incompetent planning and
er that dimly remembered raid up- They straightway got an Act passed ing te whisky’ aid breaking the i ’ statement that ‘Since the beginning wasteful execution' Ine man who
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A H Roush was here Tuesday
He has twenty five acres of sweet
clover that is shoulder high now and
is making a seed crop' He sowed it
on the ground and has this bg crop '
without any plowing harrowing or
work called farm work on the poorest
land on the place It takes C H
Guernsey to tell about this patch of
sweCt clover He saw it
Him wnicn He uu q£ gweet ckw He a?reeB w5th tha
ormed him the administration could Feed makes-fat and fat
feeds the world” and that sweet
clover is the cheapest fat producer
raised” But on politics nothing do-
ing -
TO OUR FARMER FRIENDS
taks charge April l 'j Frank got
early' for ones’ in his life and
charge' Fear years later hs
suddenly resigned
When hie frleuda gathered around
nivlUm-wanting tha position rdplUdi
U i de net went any at my trtandi
Farm ' your farm yourself Sell
your wheat yourself - Plant your -4
cotton yourself and do th thing you
think yottreelf rPart of your work
in to make you think yourself Too -
tench organisation -will destroy your
tn'iividuslity r When that i doaa-
you ara”ar“goner' Wheat or p4
wheat cpttoh ot no cotton
'Men! Feel aays-“Harvest by Jm v t
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Lawton, Jesse Wilber. The Arapaho Bee (Arapaho, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1921, newspaper, June 3, 1921; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2308068/m1/1/: accessed June 7, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.