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IT IS NOT OVERDRAWN
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In a recent issue, the Phoenix pub- point train loads hav« been shipped,
lished an editorial, in part as follows: ' The cement beds are east of Afc^rlow,
The Indian Territory can duplicate ■ on the Rock Island railroad, la the
the quality of coal of Pennsylvania, northwest part of the Chlckasyw na-
the iron of Alabama, the asphalt of
the Isle of Trinidad, the cement beds
of Scotland, the brick shale and clays
of West Virginia, the kaolin of China,
the lead and zinc of the Ozarks, the
copper of the shores of Lake Super
tion. Brick shale and clays abound
in all the nations to such an vtent
that every brick building in the ter-
ritory is constructed of the local
product. Kaolin is found near Dough-
erty, in the Chickasaw nation. Lead
lor, the granite of Maine, the liarble j ®nd zlnc n-ar Afton- Grove, Zena and
of Vermont, the lime of Arkansas, the ; sPavanaw, in the Cherokee nation
silver of Colorado, the gold of Cali-
fornia, the glass sand of Illinois, the
sand stone of North Carolina, the oil
fields of West Virginia, the gas belt
of Indiana, the pearls of the Caspean
the horses of Kentucky, the cattle of
Wyoming, the hqgs of Iowa, the
sheep of Idaho, the goats of Arizona,
the mules of Missouri, the burros of
Old Mexico, the fur animals of Ne-
vada, the cotton of Mississippi, the
■wheat of Minnesota, the corn of Kan-
sas, the sugar cane of Louisiana, the
outs of the Missouri valley, the to-
bacco of North Carolina, the rye of
Ohio, the barley of Nebraska, the or-
chards of California, the vineyards of
France, the berries of Washington
the gardens of Germany, the nuts of
Central America, the perfume plants
of the tropics, the hard woods of New
York, the soft pines of Oregon, the
fowls of Brazil, the fishes of Canadian
streams, the game of the western for-
ests and plains, the civilization of the
effete east, the skys of Italy, the cli-
mate of California, the scenery of
Switzerland, the moonlights of the
Mediterranean, the twilights of
Spain, the sunrise of the Bay of Man-
dilay, the sunset of the Golden Gate,
the energy of a compound engine, the
enterprise of a Chicago boomer. With
these things from which to draw in-
spiration, a citizenship cosmopolitan
as the Pike is carving out of the
heart of the great United States a
commonwealth throbbing with prog-
ress and prosperity, a fitting home
for men and women the peer of any
on God's footstool.
Since the above appeared we have
been accused by some of overdrawing
the picture of the greatness of this
country. Now, let's see if it is
overdrawn.
The coal of Pennsylvania is found
at South McAlester, Krebbs, Coal-
gate and other parts of the Choctaw
nation. At Henryetta, Okmulgee,
Chase and Potter, In the Creek na-
tion, and at Pryor Creek, in the
Cherokee nation. Manganese Iron
ore is plentiful near the boundary
line of the Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations, in townships qjie, two and
three, north of the base line and
townships one, two and three south,
and also in the Arbuckle mountains,
near old Fort Kasiilt% Asphalt Is
found in Immense quantities west of
Ardmore and at Gilsonite, from which
copper in the Arbuckle mountains;
granite in the vicinity of Tisho-
mingo; marble on the K. C. & P. road
at Marble City, Bunch, Swimmer and
Welling; lime at Marietta, east of
the Santa Fe railroad; glass sand
along the tributaries of the Arkansas
river in the Creek nation; oil and
gas in the Bartlesville, Tulsa, Red
Fork, Okmulgee and Muskogee oil
fields; pearls along the Clear Fork,
in the Creek country; gold and silver
west of Davis, in the Arbuckle moun-
tains, and on Pennington, in the vi-
cinity of Tishomingo, Sylvan and Al-
hambra; stock of all kinds in all the
five nations, fur animals along the
streams in the flint hills of the Chero-
kee nation and In the river valleys;
wheat in the Purcell region; corn In
the Arkansas river Dottoms; sugar
cane along the Red river; oats in the
Durant section; tobacco in the vicin-
ity of Berwyn; barley on Courtney
Flat, in the Chickasaw nation; or-
chards, vineyards, berries, gardens
and nuts in all the nations; flowers
everywhere; hard woods, oak, ash,
walnut, hickory, pecan, on all the
streams; the largest belt of virgin
pine south of Oregon in the Choctaw
nation; fowls, fish and game in every
section; civilization throughout the
entire territory; climate from town-
ship 29 north to 8 south of the base
line, and from range 27 east to 8
west of the Indian meridian. Scenery,
Seven Devils, Sugarloaf and Arbuckle
mountains, and in the eastern por-
tion of the Cherokee country, and
energy, and enterprise in Muskogee,
Ardmore, Tulsa, Henryetta, South
McAlester, Durant, Okmulgee, Ada,
Chickasha, Tishomingo, Holdenville
and other towns.
The writer has picked cotton on
the prairies, husked corn in tho bot-
toms, quarried granite and burned
brick in the Chickasaw nation and
freighted lumber in the Choctaw
country; prospected for and assayed
the ores of the Arbuckles and panned
out colors along the Pennington,
mined asphalt and paid assessments
on oil and gas wells, manufactured
artifiicial stone from the cement
beds and burned lime from the hill-
sides, pulled 3uckers in tobacco
fields and drank wine from the vine-
yards. Knowing this, he knows the
picture is not overdrawn, but knows
the half has never been told.—Mus-
kogee Phoenix.
MAKING A TEST SUIT
The Katy Wants Abrut 3,000,000
Acres In Indian Territory
MUSKOGEE: The Missouri, Kan-
sas & Texas Railway company has
filed suit in the United States court
hero against James Bullett, a citizen
of the Creek nation, for possession of
an allotment. This is the beginning
of several suits which will be filed
and made test cases.
The claim the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas has against the government is
that It was to receive every alternate
section of land for five miles on
either side of Its right of way through
the Indian Territory. In 1886, it is
claimed by the railway company, con-
gress made a grant to the first rail-
road that would build a line through
the territory from the Kansas line to
the Texas line. The Katy and the
Santa Fe tried for the prize, but the
former got its line through and won
out. The grant reads:
"As soon as Indian title Is
tlnguished and the land becomes pub-
lic domain it shall become the prop-
erty of the railroad." The title has
never been passed to the government,
and tho land has not become publio
domain. The railroad contends that
this is fraud, and that the govern
ment alloted the land this way to
avoid fulfilling the grant.
There are 3,200,000 acres of land
invol"ed. The railroad was to get the
odd sections, and some of the towns
of the territory are located on thes9
odd sections.
WORLD'S FAIR FAR BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
Verdict of a New York Writer Who Spent a Week at the
Exposition at St. Louis in July.
MORS CROOKED WORK
OLD FIREARMS UNEARTHED joint near Standing Rock, near Eu-
1 faula, they were beset by a band of
Charles Gibson, While Plowing, Un-, shaw^ees, and all but two of the
covers Ancient Relics Spaniards were annihilated, the two
Charles Gibson, the Creek phil- escaping on a raft. The tradition
osopher, who lives near Eufaula, tells goes further, and is to the cfTect that
of a find out of the ordinary while a cave in the mountains near Eufaula
plowing In his field a few days ago. —which, it is said, has never been
A rifle was uncovered by the plow, fully explored—is the hiding place of
and upon examination and further 'he gold carried by the Spaniards at
digging, a large number of old fire- the time of the massacre, and it is
arms were unearthed. They are ail! row thought the gold Is in reality
in a good state of preservation and | buried in this cave, and that the old
are of Spanish make, some of them weapons plovfed up on Mr. Gibson's
being blunderbusses, some rifles, place are the ones used by the body
some pistols and a couple of swords
■were in the collection.
There is an old Indian tradition
that in 1854 about sixty adventurous
Spaniards left New Orleans on bur-
ros, bound for the west in search of
gold; that they had secured as much
oi the precious metal as they could
carry and started on the return jour-
ney, and that when they reached a
of Spaniards spoken of in the tra-
dition.
Merely Matter of Location.
In the north, where the ruffed grouse
Is known as the partridge, the bob
white is called the quail; in the south,
where the ruffed grouse is known as
the pheasant, the quail is called th«
partridge.
A CLERK SUSPENDED
GOVERNMENT MAY INTERFERE
the
Charged With Irregularities at
Tishomingo Land Office
MUSKOGEE:" G. R. McDavitt, in
formation clerk at the Chickasaw
land office at Tishomingo, has been
suspended on the charge of irregu-
larities in the office, which has led to
a rigid investigation. The land of-
fice has been In charge of Fred Marr
since the resignation of ex-Governor
Stanley from tho commission. Some
time ago Mr. Marr became convinced
that certain lawyers were getting
valuable inside information from the
clerks in the office, and suggested
an investigation. Commissioner
Breckenridge made the investigation.
There are likely to be other dismis-
sals to follow McDavitt. The of-
fense alleged is not criminal, but it
is a breach of the discipline of the
commission. It is understood that
some of the lawyers who secured the
Information will leave Tishomingo.
Other alleged Irregularities of the
Tishomingo land office are now being
Investigated.
Miners Accept the Cut
SOUTH MCALESTER: By a prac-
tically unanimous vote tho cool min-
ers of the South McAlester district
voted to accept the reduction pro-
posed by the mine operators. This
means that the miners will not strike
as comtemplated, but that the mines
now lying idle will resume operations
and will make full time for the en-
suing season.
Weight and Temperature.
The weight of a body is said to in-
crease as Its temperature falls.
Cause of Indians Going o Mexico Will
be Investigated
MUSKOGEE: The scheme origi-
nated a few months ago by a few
designing whites for the purpose of
deporting the fulblood Cherokee In-
dians to the wilds of Old Mexico
seems to have failed. A Cherokee
of Tahlequah, who was selected as
agent for the deporting organization,
has been working arduously for a
number of months to create the prop-
er sentiments among the Indians, but
so far he has not had the success he
expected. He claims, hoverer, that
numbers of the Cherokees are leaving
by single families to avoid attention,
and, while this statement is not con-
sidered to be very extensively cor-
rect, still the Indian agent Is investi-
gating the report. Should It be
found that any of the Cherokees are
giving up their homes for abodes in
the barren hills of the southern re-
public the authorities at Washington
will be asked to interfere.
Dawes Commission Ordered to Make
a Thorough Investigation
WASHINGTON: "Investigate the
Tishomingo land office from turret ta
foundation stone," was the order is-
sued to the Dawes commission by
Mr. Ryan, the acting secretary of the
interior department. That the secre-
tary does not intend to have any of
the guilty escape is evidenced by c,
statement given out In which It is
said the resignation of one of the im-
plicated clerks has already been of-
fered, but had been refused, and tha^
the persons Involved In the Tisho-
mingo scandal would bo held to an-
swer to the United States court. It
Is also Judge Ryan's intention to go
after certain attorneys who, it is bald,
were In collusion with the record
clerks and thereby assisted greatly In
the selecting and locating of allot-
ments of their clients. In other
words, the department is preparing a
big dragnet, and everybody implicated
must either clear himself or take his
medicine.
Speaking in his usual deliberate
manner, Judge Ryan said in regard
to the investigation now goiug on in
the territory:
"The department has already re
ceived a preliminary report on the
Tishomingo land office scandii. A
thorough investigation has bean or
dered, and the guilty persons will ba
punished. The report received from
the department by the Dawes commis-
sion shows that the chief clerk of th<:
Tishomingo office brought about the
investigation by having his suspic
ions aroused by irregularities on the
part of certain members of his cleri-
cal force.
"This state of affairs was a' one*]
reported to headquarters at Muskogee
and within a few hours a thorough in-
vestigation had been ordered. So
far, one clerk has been deeply impli-
cated, while others have been piaced
In a very compromising light."
The World's Fair at St. Louis is
now in the midst of its splendid sea-
son. Colossal, complete, cosmopoli-
tan, It commands the attention of the
world as no other enterprise of the
present year. From nil nations there
are pilgrims coming to this shrine,
and from all our states and territories
there Is a constantly growing throng
of visitors. United States Senators,
Governors of States, men eminent In
science, art and letters—all express
unqualified admiration for the Expojl-
Mon and free acquiescence in the oft-
repeated statement that this Is by far
the greatest and best universal expo-
sition ever held.
During July a well-known magazine
and newspaper writer from New York,
Mr. Addison Steele, spent a week at
the World's Fair, Inspecting the
grounds, buildings and various attrac-
tions as thoroughly as was possible in
that limited period. Returning home,
Mr. Steele published In Brooklyn
Life the following appreciative com-
ments on the Exposition:
In the expressive language of the
(ay, St. Louis "has tho goods." I had
expected much of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition, for I had kept In
touch with the making of it from its
very inception, five years ago; but
after nearly a week of Journeying
through this new wonderland I must
confess that In every essential par-
ticular it Is far beyond my expecta-
tions. The biggest and best it was
meant to be and Jhe biggest and best
ent parts do Justice to their nobility
of architecture and general grandeur.
Then again In the ground plans a".d
bird's-eyo sketches—tho only possible
manner of showing It—tho fan-shaped
arrangement of this group looked stiff
and unsatisfying. Far from that, It Is
quite as remarkable in Its way as the
famous Court of Honor of the Colum-
bian Exposition. In one respect It Is
even more notable, for Instead of two
grand vistas it offers a dozen. Tho
main vista is. of course, the one look-
ing up the Plaza of SL Lonls—whose
crowning feature Is the great Louisi-
ana Purchase Monument—and across
the Grand Basin to the Cascade Gar-
I'enR. On the right are the Varied In-
dustries and Electricity buildings and
on the left Manufacturers and Edu-
cation, these—with Transportation and
Machinery still further to the right
and Liberal Arts and Mines beyond
at the left—making up the-Aody of tho
fan. For its handle the fan has tho
Cascade Gardens—rising in a grand
terrace to a height of Blxty-flve feet
nbove the floor level of the buildings
mentioned and crowned by tho great
Festival Hall, the Terrace of States
end the East and West Pavilions—and
the Fine Arts building directly behind.
The Pike has In the Tyrolean Alps
the finest concession that I have ever
seen. Thero is a great square with
many quaint buildings, a little villago
s-treet, and above the snow-clad moun-
tains—which look very real as the
It Unite variety, and as a rule the full
money's worth Is given. Tho enor-
mous Jerusalem and Boer War con-
cessions are not on the Pike.
• • •
It Is a case of dine at the Qerman
Pavilion and die at the exposition. In
n beautiful Moderne Kunst building
adjoining I)as Deutsche Haus the best
fcod and the highest prices on the
grounds are to be found, the table
d'hote lunch and dinner costing two
and three dollars, respectively. There
is also a la carte service. Everything
considered, tho prices are not exces-
sive, and at least one meal should be
taken there for the experience. An-
other should bo taken at the Tyrolean
Alps, either outdoors or in the gor-
geous dining-room In the mountain-
side. The best French restaurant Is
at Paris, on the Pike. Lower in prices
and In every way admirable are the
two restaurants conducted by Mrs.
Rorer In the pavilions of Cascade
Gardens. The east one has wait-
resses and no beer and the west one
walters and beer. For a bit of lunch
Germany. France and England all
offer delicious pastry in the Agricul-
tural building. These are not free
ads, but time-saving tips for the trav-
eler. There are no end of restaurants
to fit all purses on the grounds. I
tried nine of them and nowhere found
the prices more than they ought to be.
As a matter of fact, for neither food
nor lodging no one need pay any more
at SL Louis than he feels that he can
g*g"a
LOUISIANA PURCHASE MONUMENT AND PALACE OF VARIED INDUSTRIES.
The abstractors of Oklahoma
of A. E. Saxey of El Reno as presi-
of A. E. Saxey of Rel Reno as presi-
dent; George Carron of Norman, sec-
retary, and L. M. Bennett of King-
fisher, treasurer. A legislative coin
mittee will be named to secure the
passage of a measure requiring thq
county treasurers to carry on the cur-
rent tax rolls the delinquent taxes as
far hack as 1893.
A Decision Against Bryan
NEW HAVEN, CONN.: A decision
adverse to William J. Bryan over his
contest of the will of James P. Ben-
nett of New York and this city has
been handed down by the supreme
court of errors. The decision vir-
tually denies that Mr. Bryan is en-
titled to the 150,000 mentioned in the
sealed letter written by Mr. Bennett
and addressed to his widow, to be
read after his death. By this letter
the widow was asked to give $50,000
to Mr. Bryan and his family.
Too Much Religious Enthusiasm
MANGUM: J. A. Meradith, who
fias a claim near Erick, and his wife,
have been declared to be insane, and
have been taken to the sanitarium at
Norman. Insanity in each casr ia
thought to be due to religion, as i oth
husband and wife were constantly in
attendance at revival, which has
been in progress near their home for
several weeks. The woman declared
she was the daughter of President
Roosevelt, while her husband believes
that he is in a lake of burning brim-
stone.
Knocked From the Railroad Track
LAWTON: While driving over
the railroad track near Cache a man
named Clark and his little boy were
severely hurt, as the wagon -was
knocked from the track and demol-
ished by the train. The boy was not
seriously hurt, but his father has flvo
crushed and broken ribs and It is
also thought he sustained internal in-
juries from which he may die.
Many Broken Engagements.
Only fifteen per eent of engage-
ments end In marriage.
Boy Drowned While Bathing
WETUMKA: While bathing in
the gin pond, Claude Bradburn, aged
nine years, the son of C. C. Bradburn,
was drowned. He was with a crowd
of boys when the accident occurred.
His brother, Willie, aged 12, attempt-
ed to rescue him, but sank himself,
and but for the timely arrival of as-
sistance both boys would hare been
lost.
It Is. The exposition, rumors notwith-
standing, Ls quite finished.
• •
One of the greatest, and certalr'y
one of the most agreeable, of my many
surprises was the extreme beauty of
the main group of buildings. For the
simple reason that the camera does
not exist which could take in tho
vast picture as the eye sees It, the
early views of the group—a bit here
and a bit there—gave a scant idea of
the schemo as a whole. Nor did the
early views of the ten Individual
buildings which make up its compon-
HAS FAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.
Thousands of Negatives Made For
Millionaire August Belmont.
Among rich Americans perhaps
hone Is so fond of being photographed
as August Belmont, James R. Keene
being a close Becond. One New York
photographer, whoso patrons ere most-
ly wealthy men, has made thousands
of negatives for Mr. Belmont In the
last few years. One of the largest
single orders for prints from old nega-
tives ever received by this photog-
rapher came from Mr. Belmont himself
soon after the death of his wife. It
Included a good print from every nega-
tive in which Mrs. Belmont appeared.
The photographer never guessed how
many photographs he had taken for
Eelmont till then; ho found that they
numbered nearly a thousand.
Yankee Souvenirs for Egypt.
A Connecticut firm manufacture? sa-
cred scarabei for the Egyptian tourist
trade.
Why Birds Live Long.
Why do birds live so much longer
than mammals, which are often a hun-
dred times their size? Possibly, among
other things, because they have beaks
Instead of teeth. All carnivorous
beasts become weak and liable to star-
vation, as their teeth drop out or
break. Neither are the herbivorous
animals in much better case. Old
horses would probably die of starva-
tion if wild, for their teeth would fail
them; indeed, In some stony countries
old horses have to be killed because
their teeth are worn away by cropping
grass close to the rock. Rodents con-
stantly,rile from Injuries to teeth. But
a bird's beak neither wears out nor
drops off, and as It constantly swal-
lows fresh grit to aid in grinding food
in tie gizzard that needs no repairing
either. \
evening falls. The best scenic rail-
road yet devised affords several fine
glimpses of tho Alps and there is a
very graphic exposition of the Ober-
ammergau passion play in the little
church. The Cliff Dwellers' conces-
sion also looks very realistic at night-
fall. It is elaborate in arrangement
ard the courting, snake and other
danccs by the Southwestern Indians
make It another of tho Pike shows
which should be taken In by all. In
Seville there ls an amusing marionette
theater and some genuine Spanish
dancing. For the rest the Pike offers
How the Waiter Lost a Tip.
At one of the Kansas City hotels
where the colored waiter® give espe-
cially good service, but always expect
adequate remuneration for the same
from the guests, a waiter was espe-
cially officious the other day in serv-
ing a man from whom he expected a
liberal tip. When the meal had been
served and he was standing off at one
c'de, eagerly looking for an opportu-
nity to be of service, he said to the
guest:
"Didn't yo' have a brothah heah last
v/eek, sah?"
"No," said the one addressed, "I be-
lieve not."
"Well," continued the waiter, "theh
was a gem'man heah at mah table
what looked ve'y much like you, and
he was so well pleased with the serv-
ice that he gave me 50 cents when he
left."
The guest had by this time finished
his meal, and as he arose he said to
the expectant servitor:
"Come to think of It, Sam, that was
my brother that was here, and I guess
he paid you for the whole family. He
may be back again in a week or two."
—Kansas City Journal.
ClAjrch and School for Indians.
Mother Katherine Drexel of Phila-
delphia, founder and head of the Or-
der of the Blessed Sacrament, com-
posed of nuns who devote their lives
to the uplifting of the Indian and ne-
gro, has ofTered $500,000 of her own
private fortune with which to build
a church and school for tbe Indians
of the Winnebago, Neb., reservation.
The only condition ls that the Indians
consent, and this Father Schell of
homer. Neb., has obtained.
Ancient Phases Corrupted.
Ancient Plcts In England were
called by tho Celtic word "pehta" or
fighters. This was Latinized info Plc-
tl. So, too, Barbary of the ancient
maps is a monumeut to the miscalling
of the Berber tribe by the Greek word
signifying "barbarian." Even the leg-
end of the victory of Guy of Warwick
over the dun cow is assailed by ruth-
less etymologists, who insist upon its
derivation from his conquest over tho
"Dena gau," or Danish settlement, at
the champion's gates. The Celtic
words 'alt maen" arc responsible for
many "old man" crags upen sea coasts
and among mountains. They mean,
however. "bJgh rock."
afford, and yet be well fed and housed.
It he will use ordinary common sense
in making a Selection out oi the
abundance offered.
• • •
HotT Yes, but on the two hottest
days of the summer at St. Louis I
suffered no more from the heat than
in New York beforo leaving and after
returning. Every day of the seven
there was a breeze at the fair grounds
and It was always possible to find a
shady spot. The nights were cool and
comfortable.
ADDISON STEELE.
SET THEM ON EACH OTHER.
Belligerent CaMer: Fooled by Quick-
witted Newspaper Man.
Representative Brownlow of Ten-
nessee tells that once he was running
a country paper during campaign
times and was printing "fighting"
language every week. One day, Just
after the paper was out, a big man,
armed with a club, walked Into the
sanctum and fiercely Inquired If the
editor was In. The frightened Brown-
low had wit enough to answer that he
was not, but that he would go out
and hunt him up. H started for the
street and at the foot of the stairs
met another irate fellow, who a£ked:
"Will I find the editor of this dirty
sheet upstairs?" "Yes," said Brown-
low, "ho's up there at his desk Just
Itching for a fight." The second man
went up and Brownlow disappeared.
Which whipped the other is not re-
lated—and Brownlow didn't go baclc
during the day to find out.
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