Crowder City Advertiser. (Juanita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1904 Page: 2 of 6
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j Indian Territory News, j
I Russian Squadron at Port Arthur
Cannot Menace Japs.
To Kxliihlt liidlnn School.
Miss Estelle Reel, superintendent of
Indian schools, announces that in the
Indian building on the exposition
grounds a live Indian school fully
equipped and having 100 pupils will be
maintained where classroom and In-
dustrial teachers will exhibit their
methods and show what is being ac-
complished for the Indian. It is in-
tended to make this an ideal and rep-
resentative school, which will prove,a
source of inspiration to the visiting;
Indian teachers, and furnish to the
public an Interesting object lesson of
the manner in which the children of
the former nomads of the forest and
pi"airie are being elevated to the plane
of enlightened, self-sustaining citizen-
ship. The accompanying exhibit will
consist of specimens of schoolroom
work and sample products of the na-
tive crafts of the various Indian tribes,
from the birch-bark canoe of the north
to the Navajo blanket of the south-
west. It is expected that this will be
tho (ine3t and most comprehensive col-
lection ot rare and beautiful Indian-
made objects ever exhibited.
Odd Fellow* nt Wn Kroner.
The erand lodge, I. O. O. F.. and the
general assembly of Rebekahs, of the
Indian territory, have concluded their
twelfth annual conventions at Wagoner
and the reports show it to have been
the most successful meeting of the two
orders ever held in the territory. The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year by the grand lodge: A
F. Parkinson, Wagoner, grand master;
B. F. Lafayette, Checotah, deputy
grand master; P. B. H. Shrevcr, Tish-
omingo, grand warden; G. H. Alexan-
der, Muskogee, grand secretary; A. F.
Ross, Durant, grand treasurer; G. W.
Mowbray, Tulsa, grand lodge trustee;
H. D. Kinsley, Checotah, trustee for
Odd Fellows' home. The new officers
for the general assembly of Rebekah
are: Mrs. C. H. Gardner, Checotah,
president; Mrs. Charles Hokey, Krebs,
vice president; Miss Alice Schmidt,
South McAlester, secretary, Mrs. Mol-
lie MeNees, Marlow, treasurer; Mrs.
R. R. Mason, Ardmore, trustee for the
Odd Fellows' home.
Money for School Fluid.
As a result of the special acf of con-
gress establishing recording districts
throughout Indian territory, the West-
ern judicial district has to its credit
f 11,146.70, which will be immediately
appropriated to the public school fund.
The business of each of the recording
districts more than paid the recorder's
salary. The Muskogee, or Tenth dis-
trict, paid $C,e03.(!0 in excess of the
salary due the recorder. Tho Twelfth
district, Eufaula, had a balance of only
? 121.90. These are the two extremes,
each of the other districts paying Into
Ihe- school fund considerably over
{1,000
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rite:
Jail Ileform.
The bill which has passed congress
providing bail in all criminal cares
pending appeal in the Indian territory
will take about 40 per cent, of the in-
mates of jails out on bond and will re-
lieve the intolerable conditions of the
Jails that, has been such a menace for
the last five year3. It will also stop
Ihe practice of pleading guilty under
promise of a short sentence rather than
remain in jail so long awaiting trial.
The new law applies to all eases now
pending upon appeal in the courts ol
tho territory, ineludir t tho commis-
sioners' courts, as well as the district
courls.
Territory Elrrtloil Ccnlr.t.
Sulphur Springs has the oniy election
contest in the Indian teiritory result-
ing from tho recent city elections. H.
R. Webster was a candidate for major
on an independent ticket and was de-
feated on the face of the returns by
B. E. Rawlins, democrat, by one vote.
Webster alleges that illegal votes were
rest and has brought suit in the dis-
trict court to oust Rawlins. Ho also
nsks an order seating himself as may-
or.
Settler* from flip North.
The actual settlers who are coming
to the Indian territory and buying
farm lands on which to make homes
are coming from a half dozen states
north and northeast of the territory.
Permltn linllnnn to Sell.
A bill permitting Indians in the In-
dian territory in bodies of 200 to sell
their lands and leave the United Slates
was introduced in the house by Repre-
sentative Little, of Arkansas.
Till***'* Tnmltle Wenlth.
• Last year the assessed valuation i
Ihe taxable property of Tulsa was
$900,000. To-day. according to the as-
sessors' report, it is $1,800,000, an in-
crease of $900,000 in a year.
Killed nit JBi-rhlcknxnn l.r-Klnliitor.
"Mont" Littrell, a well-known farm-
er and stockman, wos placed in jail a*
Ardmore, charged with the murder of
Walter Hare, an ex-member of the
Chiilasaw legislature.
t lllef Porter to Wed.
This dispatch comes from St. Louis:
Pleasant Porter, chief of the Creek na-
tion in the Indian territory, has been
accepting congratulations at the Plant-
ers' hoi^l since his arrival from the
Indian territory on his engagement to
a St. Louis girl. Porter is a widower,
about 55 years old. He has two grown
daughters, one a graduate of Forest
Park university and the other now at-
tending a fashionable school in the
east. His wife has been dead about
ten years. Porter has been a frequent
visiter to St. Louis in recent years and
the last several months has been seen
at various places of amusement in St.
Louis with a pretty young woman.
She is a member of the household of
an old friend of his who has business
interests in tho territory. The name
of the young woman is withheld for
the present, as Porter says he prefers
the announcement to come from her
family. The family is not quite ready
to make the official announcement. It
is expected, however, that it will be
made in a few days.
riirtlNiin FlKlit lit Ilnrnut.
Republicans at Durant were startled
when Mr. Langham, a special commis-
sioner of the department of justice in
Washington, and Mr. Pritchard, chief
marshal of ihe central district, of South
McAlester, arrived in the city and be-
gan an investigation of the charges
preferred against Charles C. Parker,
United States i mimissioner; A. M.
Wilcox and Jam. B. Davis, deputy
United States ma hals; William B,
Stone, deputy Unit d Siates clerk, and
James Yarbrough, deputy United States
constable. It is alleged that on March
1, 1904, at the district republican con-
vention in Durant, these officers know-
ingly allowed intoxicating liquors to
be introduced among some of the dele-
gates to the convention and that the
officers assisted in drinking the in-
toxicating liquors.
A Hook in Cherokee.
J. R Scquieche, a full-blood Chero-
kee, has organized a company which
will publish a book in the Cherokee
language, using the Cherokee charac-
ters. The book will be a history of
the Cherokee nation. Its objects will
be the perpetuity of the Cherokee al-
phabet. The book will contain the
pictures of all Cherokee chiefs since
the day of John Ross. In order to ac-
complish this work new matrices must
be made by the type foundries. To
make models for tin ?e the type in tho
office of the Cherokee Advocate, the
Cherokee paper published in Tahle-
quah, will be sent to the foundries.
Two On(f>iutrlnnn.
The oldest persons in the Indian ter-
ritory are Mrs. Mimay Poorboy, of Fort j
Gibson, who recently passed her lOSth j
birthday anniversary, and a Choctaw
woman, the mother of Enoch Flax, v/ho
lives near Quinton. Tho latter is 109
years old. She came to the Indian ter-
ritory with the first party of Indians
which emigrated from Mississippi.
Mrs. Poorboy was born in the old
Cherokee nation, east of the Missis-
sippi river, and was a slave for 70
years.
It In Non Exported Thnt Togn Will l.miil
t New Chwuiiir anil Miike it flunk
Attack Cpoii the ICuh- '
Minim.
St. Petersburg, April 19.—St Peters-
burg is flooded with rumors from all
directions regarding the plans of the
Japanese, now that the Russian fleet
at Port Arthur is unable longer to
menace their troop transports.
The Associated press in a dispatch
from Port Arthur Sunday last gave 20
as the number of Japanese transports
reported as having been sighted In the
direction of Yinkow, the seaport of
Niuchwang. Officials of the general
staff, while having no information in
this respect, would not be surprised
if the number should turn out to be
< orrect or even that a larger number
is steaming there. They anticipated
this movement at the time of the
breaking out of the war, but the ac-
tivity of Vice Admiral Makaroff's fleet
and the large army in the vicinity of
Niuchwang Imposed caution, and, it
is believed, made the Japanese aban-
don. or at least postpone it, and caused
them to continue their advance toward
Manchuria through Korea and con-
sider disembarkation and a flank
movement at Takushan.
Vice Admiral Togo's immense supe-
riority enables him to hold the Itus-
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Bum squadron in Port Arthur and
Japanese transports therefore can safe-
ly pass through tho straits of Pe-Chi-
Li and attempt to land at the head of
the gulf of Lino-Tung, under the guns
of the warships, as did Gen. Shatters
army at Daiquiri, Cuba. If this :,houh!
succeed th-^ Japanese will be in an ex-
cellent position to execute a flank
movement on Llao-Yank or cut off
Port Arthur.
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.
Ml licitd F.lreiit Porter.
The five civilized tribes have always
taken a great Interest in masonry. In
1SS(! Gen. Albert Pike conferred the
thlrty/eceond degree on the chiefs of
the four nations, tho candidates beinc
Gen. P. Porter, Creek; Peter Plteh-
lynn. Choctaw; Elias C. Boudlnott,
Cherokee, and Holmes Colbert, Sr.,
Chickasaw. Of . these all are dead ex-
cept Chief Porter, who highly prizes
his membership certificate signed by
that Intrepid soldier, Pike.
Jo lien Not Involved.
Secretary Hitchcock has recom-
mended to the president the appoint-
ment of a new agent for the Osage In-
dians in Oklahoma. It was said that
an army officer would probably be as-
signed to take charge of the reserva-
tion when Mitscher's term expires
early next month. The secretary said
that the report that Commissioner
Jones was involved in the investigation
made by Mr. O'Fallon was without
foundation.
l(neer Indlnnn.
The Alabama Indians in the Creek
nation ar£ so primitive in their way
that they attract attention where In-
dians are no uncommon sight. They
are living and practicing customs of
the Indians of 100 years ago. They
still speak their own dialect, being the
only one of the 49 different tribes com-
posing the Creek nation who do this
None of them can speak English. They
live in pole huts daubed with red clay.
The Fire Chief* Itarn Ilnrnnd.
The barn belonging to Frank Swift,
chief of the Are department, burned at
Muskogee, together with ten horses,
four mules, several tona of grain and
sets of harness.
delegate* to the National Convention Kc-
Ifctcil ami I mttrueted forjudge 1'arker
as State's Candida ti* for I'rertltleiit.
Albany, N. Y., April 19.—The demo-
cratic state convention for the. elec-
i lion of delegates to the national con-
I vention selected the following dele-
' gates-at-large: David 11. Hill, of Al-
bany; Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy:
I George Ehret, of Now York city, and
| James W. Rldgeway, of Brooklyn. Tho
i delegates were instructed by a vote of
j ::01 to 149 for Alton B. Parker as
j Ihe state's candidate for president.
! The platform adopted is brief and, In
I addition to instructing for Parker,
compels the delegation to vote as a
unit.
THREATENS TO USE FORCE.
Onr MlnUter nt Kan Domingo Will Take
ftleuii* to I'revent Power* CoUerting
Claims Before We \ re Ma ti* fled.
San Domingo, April 19.—United
States Minister Powell Informed the
minister of foreign affair3 yesterday
that, in the event of any foreign power
attorns ting to force a settlement of the
claims of Its citizens, thus excluding
the claims of other nationalities, he
would, in the name of his government,
take immediate charge of all the cus-
tom houses of the government, place
in each a military guard and prote.
the same in tho interest of the United
Stales creditors, basing his action upon
the recent decision cf The Hague
tribunal.
Water ('iilnpntiy Htieil for 1*1 re
Topeka, Kan., April 19.—The Park-
hurst-Davis Mercantile company yes-
terday filed suit for $200,000 indemnity
against tho Topeka Water company,
because of the alleged low pressure of
water during a fire on February 13,
which consumed the wholesale store of
the firm. The suit Is brought by the
ctstern insurance companies which iosi
in the fire.
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Tignor, J. D. Crowder City Advertiser. (Juanita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1904, newspaper, April 22, 1904; Crowder City, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc270282/m1/2/: accessed May 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.