The Indianola Press. (Indianola, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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SCHOOLS FILLEl
SOME COTT N ESTIMATES.
INDIAN TERRITORY CONFRONTS
WITH SOVE PERPLEXITIES
IHSTITUTIONS TOO FfW FOR SCtOl*
T"e HOC COO Approp'ittd by c -
B'ett Net Neirl, Ercag>, te
"■* Keees—Scioet in Seme Pa
A'e Ove-run
Ml8KOGEE Tt« t iperinter.!
f t tchoo s in Indian Territory, J
Betedict. ar.d the T r.r>u* school ,
pertntc-ndeiits are confronted wit:*
ktiu j* j robl<-™i upon the opening !
tbe da> schools of thi tribal gov«^ |
rrint* to white children free of t
Hon throufh the dlttributtoa of f ■
$2(".'.000 appropriated bjr con<r* !
in soot district* more puplla ar« ►
tendinx the *rhc*..J* tftan the tearln
can look after A* a re ult tb« I
• tructor* are clamoring for as*l«tm'
but thete ciiioct be sranted a- the ai
propriation it not large enough to co {
er the added expense.
One teacher upen arriving at ti'
little frame building which had be.
converted Into a schools bouse, foun
' t US children all hungry for know
h-dge. were Jammed Into tbe lltt!
r<^m eagerly waiting for her to ar
rai.ge her classes and hear the lesions.
She felt very much like the old wo.
man who lived In ber shoe and sent
In an appeal for an assistant or for a
reduction of the number of her pupil*
There is no way. however, by which
«nv of the children living in toe vicin-
ity of a school bouse can be kept from
school, as one has as good a right as
the other and bonce the only thing for
tbe teacher to do Is to govern her
large family as best she can and tea< h
as well as possible, a few teachers
upon meeting these discouraging con-
ditions have resigned.
Another teacher upon reaching the
scene of her labors found that she
could not secure board and room near-
er than three miles from her school
bouse. 8he became discouraged and
resigned.
Some amusing Incidents have arisen
In connection with the enforcement of
tho segregation of the negro pupils
from the whites and ludians. The
supervisor of schools In tbe Creek
nation yesterday received a complatnf
from a teacher In a school for white
and Indian children that several negro
pupils had Intruded and insisted on
going to school there. She asked the
supervisor to compct them to stay
sway. The same day the supervisor
received anothor complaint from a
negro teacher stating that white chll-
dren had Intruded In the negro school.
This teacher requested that admis-
sion be denied tho white children N<1
coinplants. however, come from whites
or Indians about the association of
those two races In the schools.
SeinHary Thctxm F ju** Thi
Year a C'cp as En«nrul
1 >' Mi w. tare H' >•, bs.e? of
r>'.'Ob tfcls jeir «-cord:r:f tolte a*"-
I mate cf £<cr*uiy Ttot, .rz. of the
■ *ri cf af- ' - • *e TL- *ceage Is
* * *' "ct grr-ate- tt.:« year :ian Is t
at 1 the ccr.iltkt® Lave t«-!ter
itan In 1KJ. Ml Tbob^rn ti order
tte Impret.-oe however. tt t "be
preaftt cool weafeer «m Cft ^ a<j.
viLta^t<us to t!.a cotton cr.p. ai-
ti igh to *:c.u Citr,n.<Lt Is er-
pected.
The pri«f>ert k^r the cot;, a crop
are the f!te>t twr known la Oki - !
txnit Tte i «t 'ncreare In acreage]
crer last year means that wita fa-
vorable wfather, tbe term ,-y will ;
bate an enormous yield. Three hun-
dred thousand tales are equal to
-■ I.a-t v ar <ir.'.ali. • j
ma raised 204,SIT tales, or SO I'Sl.iOO
pound- and In 1K 2 tll,S9> bales, or
109.19j,W"0 pound*. The acreage las! I
year exceeded that of the preceding
year but the yield was ema'l, com-
pared with 1>"2. owing to t.ie wot
weather and other unfavorable condi-
tions Greer county alone expects
to harvest W**) baits this fall.
Tbe smallest >>e:d reported from
any one county last year was that of
Dewey. where there were only sixty-
eight bales Cotton was planted In
nineteen of the twenty-six coun'les,
Woods, Wr/.dwsrd. Grant. Garfield,
Kay and Noolc counties not reporting.
It Is probable that ti- re will be re-
ports from all counties this year,
since Woods, Woodward and Noble J
are known to have a considerable
a/reage this season.
The immense cotton crop of Okln'io-
•na will doubtless require much addl-
lonal heip In IU handling. With
•bv#ut 150,000,000 poTitids to pick thera
will be work until n« xt spring.
Counting on sixty days of nice woaih-
r, during which time farmers can
?et into the fields tj pick, there will
i lave to be enough pltkers to gather
j J.500,000 pounds dally, and. consid-
ering 200 pound.1 an average day's
picking. It will require 12,000 pickers
J to gather the crop. At the rate of 75
rents per 100 pounds for picking,
he farmers will pay out 118,750 per
lay to pickers, or U135.5O0 tor the
teason.
FOR TEN-CINT COTTON
4A Enterprise t'.e Object of Which la
to Fi* the P <-e of Cotton
W ASHING! N folonel K S.
Peter, fif Texa' pe.-1dent of the Cot-
ton Growers' Preactive association,
has su;ce<-ded In lloating an ent-;r-
pri • w.jicb, he sv«. will mean ten
per,' f tton alwa;- He Is on hl-i
way f r me for N<* Vork, w here l.*
has ixen for somet re in conferenr<s
with ? nancial mt-r f rational repu'''-
tios whom he ha ■ ucceeded in ia-
teres- eg In his s«.icmc
Colonel fetors i, one of !ne incor-
piratorj of the S-utlKrn Cotton cor-
l ra' n just torn'd with abundant
capitsl for the pirpose t>f controll-
ing the cotton outpit of the southern
tat.-s. Tne corpiration will estab-
lish warehouses tlroughout the cot-
ton natos and gm the farmers re-
ceipts for all t.ie cotton received.
These receipts will pass current, and
"ill be as good a gold,' says the
colonel.
The corporation jt hold tiie cott'-n
f >r a price fixed regulated by the
supply and demand
"It is our purpote." said t'olonel
l'eters. "to fix the price of our cot-
ton instead of alloving it to be fixe,I
in Liverpool and N-w York by spin-
ners and speculator! It will be Im-
passible for ns to irt our scheme In
operation in time to handle this
year's crop, but w will be ready Tor
business before th< cotton is picked
next year, and in tvo or three years
«i are confident of N ing 'able to con-
trol the output. It will be a bless-
ing to the cotton planters of the
aOUtJ."
Colonel Peters sau that among the
men who are Interand with him in
the en: rprise is a N'ew York finan-
cier. whos" check is good for 1100 -
000.000. The mare- is to be dis-
cussed a' the conventon of the Farm-
ers' congress, the Cotton Growers' as-
sociati<in and the CMton Growers'
Protec'ive associatiot oif the 2L*^
ins:. Colonel Peten says taere is
not the least doubt that the enter-
prise will be in operanon before next
year, and will prove very beneficial
to the growers of cot:cn.
EIGHT INJURED IN A RIOT
GOING AFTER THE BUSINESS
DOESN'T WANT GUARDIAN9
South McAlester School Bond*
SOUTH MCALESTER At a meet
Ing of the city council it was decided
to issue $150,000 in bonds for the erec-
tion of school houses In each of the
four city wards, and tt large central
high school. The enrollment of the
public schools for the term Just opened
show a an increase of 9 45 per cent in
the attendance of white children over
last year. An increase of 20 per cent
in the enrollment of negroes i.i also
noted.
TISHOM1GO: Fully two thousand
people attended the first day's celebra
tlon given by the citizens of Tisho-
mingo In honor of the inauguration of
Governor D H Johnston. The fes-
tivities were held in Kingsberry park,
and tne program of the day Included
a barbecue at noon baseball. Indian
games and other amusements for the
edification of the crowd.
-UNIVERSAL ALPHABET"
Boaton Univer«ity Takea Initiative To-
ward Establishing It
Boston university has issued a clr
cu!ar inviting opinions on a proposal
to hold an International conference
for the purpose of adopting a "uni-
versal alphabet, by which to Indicate
the pronunciation of words in the lealV
ing European languages.
As a preliminary measure. It is de-
sired to obtain the opinion of tae
learned public upon the desirability
and practicability or the proposed coii
ference. For this purpose the present
circular has been sent to the members
of the American Phifological associ-
ation, who are to meet in St. Louis
about the middle of September. At
that time the chief philologists of th£
world will be assembled and the sub-
ject will be considered. A second cir-
cular will be sent to all university
professors as soon as the faculties re-
assemble.
Chickasaw Native Geve — or Oppcsei
Their Appo'ntment
TISHOMINGO: In his message to
the Chickasaw legislature ,u session
her«\ newly eleriiMl governor of
the nation, Douglas H. Johnston,
makes a vigorous protest against tbe
Interior department tn the appo'nt-
ment of guardians for Indian minors.
He says that nothing else could har-
ass the Chickasaw and Choctaw na-
tions In the allotment of lands and
distribution of tribal properties so
much as the appointment of guardi-
ans.
Governor Johnston maintains that
the parent is the natural guardian of
the child and is fully competent to
handle the minor's estate. He say*
the Indians should no longer be treat-
ed as wards of the government and
thinks that if ihe interior depa.-t-
ment should force the appointment
of guardi-.ns for Indian children It
would l.e ihe greatest injustice that
could be Cone the Indians.
The go*ernor urges tbe speedy pay-
ment of the tribal funds of the nation
per capita, favors the additional en-
rollment of new born children up to
the tin.; o' the dissolution of th£ tri-
bal <v>\. m.nent, March 4. 1906, rec-
ommecds that a sufficient portion
or the .nvesied and trust funds In th«
hands or the tederal government be
set apart for the payment of the out-
standing school warrants and con-
cludes hi- message by urging th« ap-
pointment of a delegation to Washing-
ton to represent the nation in all mat-
ters that may arise before the depart-
ment and congress, affecting the
rigJts and interests of the Chickasaw*
BUILDING A SMELTER
Now cometh the dog star days,
when the thrifty hot^wlfe may live
oa tin delicatessen jJ&n.
S. S. Reiner Proposes to Make Demon-
stration of Gold In Wichitas
| , LAWTON S S. Remer. who has
been ror some time at work on a
smelter at hit mine in tae Wichita
Mountains, will be able to fire up in a
rew days. He was in lawton recently
and took out with him to his camp
' an engine to be used in the operation
j or the smelter. When this Is finished
| it will be the first smelter erected In
' the Wichitas. Almost all the miners
j of that vicinity have donated their
work to Mr. Renter's good cause, and
have come over to his ramp and help
ed him in every way possible to com-
plete the smelter. Many times there
j have been as many as eighteen men I
at work'on this valuable enterprise.
Mr. Remer has expended already on
his smeltor about }3.Q00. He is mors
j than ever encouraged at the present
I time. Mr. Remer in a conversation
said: "Seeing is believing The first
j bullion that I can bring into lawton
from the smelter will convince tta#
world that there Is gold in the Wichita
Mountains Then it will be an easy
matter to gvt outside capitsl Inter-
ested."
Checotah Has a Novel Way of Tsiab
lishing a Cotton Market
MUSKOGEE: The business men
of Checotah have decided upon a
novel plan to in* ice the farmers tn
market their cotton In that town.
Every time a farmer sells a load ol
cotton in Checotah he gets a ticket
beating a certain number. About
Christmas time, alter the cotton li
all marketed, a public dra'A.ng is tc
be held. Duplicates of all the nuni
bers given out to the cotton raiser-
will be put in a box and shaken ui
and three of them will be drawn out
by a little girl who is to be blind
folded. The three men holding th«
lucky numbers will receive prizes
amounting to $300 tn gold. cou
tributed by the merchants. Tha
f drawing brings thousands of peoplf
| to tow n every year, and is ? > ;jr mid
winter event.
Fairmount Postoffice Robbed
E.ilD Safe blowers broke into
Ihe Fairmount postoffice and robbed
the safe of $500. The robbers forced
an entrance through the rear door ol
the building and used a heavy ex-
plosive to rorce the saTe door. A por-
tion of the money tak^-n belonged tc
the government and a portion to indi-
viduals. J. N. Smith, tje postmaster
refused to dis^li ,-e the amount ol
money taken but stated it was nearly
the amount given above. Deputy
Sherifr Morrison and a posse of men
are in pursuit or the robbers, who are
supposed to be bt-aded toward Guth
rie or Oklahoma Citv.
Attacks Made Upcn Ncn-Unicn Work-
men at Chi^qo Stock Yards
CHICAGO: Two savage attacks
we;e made upon non-union vvor!:ern at
theetocK yards, and in the n^ts that
rollowed eight peoflr were InJure'd, j Ordinary
rout of them so set rely that It -'VJ j U"o<l Ordinary
nec«ssary to take th- tn to hospital* | Middling
The first disturbance occurred at the I
inte-section ol HlUtt'l and Root I
street. Two y nr.? women, Ai.r.le ' ,£*'/
Coot and Mamie J w i.- m an ;
east bound Root stre -i < dr. and when .
It reached Halstead street tew-rai
men and boys, with the aid of two
or tiree women, boarded the car and
dragged the young woman to the
strefts. H it they w -ri badly beat- n
before the police arrived. They wi re
takea to Ihe hospital Mamie Jasper
was Btruck with a brick and her lace
and forehead were badly cut. The
mob remained at a bhort distance frotu
the car track and continued to throw
stones. A west bound car w hich hap- j };0 j r(.,j
pened to pass during the trouble was
struck by several of the missiles and
two of the passengers, Fremont Sloan
and Annie Crodone, were injured An-
ton Ashtura, a driver for a brewery,
tried to drive through the crowd and
was lilt in the back of the head with a
brick and knocked from his wagon.
His scalp was badly cut, but otherwise
his injuries were not severe.
A call ror help had been sent In by
one ol the officers and Lieutenant
Prim and six policemen soon arrived
and at once charged the crowd, wnlch
scatt'-red. Policeman Chris Lyons
was knocked down by a stone, but was
not badly hurt.
A second riot took place at Root
street near Princeton avenue, where
seven colored men, employed in the
stock yards, were attacked by a larfe
crowd of sympathizers with the stock ! p^kJrs
yards strikers. John Sims, one of the I Pigs and light
colored men, was knocked down and
nearly kicked to death. His knee cap
was broken, his jaw was broken and
was badly injured about other por-
tions of his head, and severely hurt In
the chest. The police finally dis-
persed the mob, and several arrests
were made.
WORLD'S MARKET
Cotton.
GALVE8TON fcPOl
i Mi'iriJ.nrf 10' -
O'fA Middling ;0 4
10 Miridhrif ?*.r ] J„
r'kw OB LEAN 8 SPOTS.
n i Midd hi, ^ 101 j
iJi'lilliri,' l(r .
•Ji * MifMhng fair h
Grain.
So. 2 tmJ
N'j. j llHffi
N'o 2
I No 2
| No 0 red
! No. 2 Lard
No. 2
j No. 2 white
I No. 2 yellow
No. 2
NV 2 white
kansa* CITY.
h m eat
11 or
1 in
ii
I 04
CHICAGO.
Will! AT.
MM
32'j
:u.'
Live Stock
; Strrrn—best
" —fair to good-
Western fed steers
Stock its and feeders
Southern steers
Western cows
Native cows
Native heifers
Br. I Is
Calves
Heary
I Native lambs
! Native sheep
! Native ewes
kansas city.
CATTLE.
J S « 10
« — a s
.1 — 4 25
> 3 >>5
t — a, i 30
1 < *>
1 40^ 4 Si
•1 —C 4 25
- 3 —® f —
i 5 «5<%i 3 :r>
5 (itrgi 3 75
5 'XT® 5 80
S4 259S
ii -V ®
3
5 80
4 —
3 T5
RUSSIAN SHIP AT FRISCO
United State* It to Inquire Into True
Objects of the Visit
SAN FRANCISCO: The Russian
cruiser Lena is lying af anchor off the
Cnlon Iron Works. The boat's com-
mander stated that her boilers are in
need or repairs, and that some time
must elapse berore she will be In con-
dition to go to sea.
As yet nothing haa been done to-
ward placing her In dry dock.
WASHINGTON: Secretary Mor-
ton has telegraphed Rear
CHICAGO.
CATTLE.
Beeves
Cows and heifers
Stockers and feeders
Texans
WwUraa .
hogs.
Mixed and butchers
Uood to choice heavy
Rongb heavy
Light
Bulk of sales
Sheep _..
Lam lis
fueep.
t 3 e to
2 3CKa, 4 75
.... i ilta, 3 75
..._ 4 - 5 50
i —4 25
Jj iutan 6 05
5 751# 6 —
. 5 7y® 6 lu
5 50$ 6 Kt
— 3 0.1$ 5 SO
I 3 'i 4< 4 25
3 23(9 3 10
i Steers—top
-bulk
aii Cows-top
— — —Admiral —bulk
Goodrich, commander-in-chief or the Calves—top
FORT WORTH.
CATTLE.
I 3 30
2 30
1 5>i«
—bulk
Top
Bulk
J 3 72'i
3 .Oflt j 65
BROUGHT BACK FROM INDIANA
To be nappy, adrises a magazine
writer, rill yourself -a:th sunshine '
^ ou w ill get the same effects by let-
ling som -one-else fill you with hot
41 r.
WONT ATTACK THE CHARTER
The Katy Railroad Company and Mus-
kogee S:ttle their Differences
SOUTH MCALESTER: The Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas Railway com-
pany has compromised its suit against
the city of Muskogee in which the
railroad company contended tha'
Muskogee was not legally incorpor-
ated and ha.-s no power to act as an
incorported town The railroad com-
pany owned a pond which the city or
dered drained. The Katy people
threatened to attack the city charter
if it insisted upon removing the watf_
from the pond. The city and th
railroad peopl,.' compromised by per-
mitting tae pond to be drained and
allowing it to br filled again, witb
Iresh water.
Paciric squadron at San Francisco and
to inquire or the commander or tne
Russian warship Lena what his inten-
tions are.
Admiral Goodrich's report tit the
presence of the Lena In San Francisco
harbor caused a great stir In ofMcial
circles here. The entry of the ship was
entirely unexpected and was a disa-
greeable event, for it had been hoped
by the officials that America would
escape being drawn into the necessity
of making close decisions respecting
tho rights of belligerent vessels in our
ports.
The presence of the Russian trans-
port, so-called. In San Francisco har-
bor involves the application of the -
United States neutrality laws and it j maUc tbeft which Rock Island de-
was said at the state department that | tect'ves have been unearthing during
it was the duty under the president's '^e last few months. a number of
proclamation or neutrality, ror the | employees ot the road have been
treasury officials there, collector of i discharged and several are under in.
customs and surveyor of the port and j dictment.
the United States district attorney in ! Mrs Faulkner . j
San Francisco to take any action ne ing "ouse he^ in I ° " 3
ctssarv in the matter. In other ords railroad men made ".nUmber of
the case is purely Internal as it stanis claimed that th* e' She
though it may become external nt anv I go0d« and *he harT" §aV<? her tbe
moment and thus require ection b> their havin" been ^ Kr0wled=<? of
the state department in event thai ; > - st0'?n- She was
another nation. Japan for instance, of-
ficially calls attention to the Lena"*
presence in San Francisco harbor.
A Woman Charged With Receiving
Stoler Goods at Chickasha
CHICKASHA: Mrs. Fredonia
Faulkner has been given a prelimi-
nary hearing before Commissioner
Payne on the charge of having re-
ceived stolen goods rrom Rock Island
oars, alleged to have been taken by
conductors and brakemen. This is
another chapter in the story of syste-
$1,925,000 FOR BROOMCORN
Expected
To Dedicate Tulsa. I. T., Church
TULSA: The Rev Dr W. B Pal-
more, t-ditor of the Christian Advo-
cate or St. Louis'will preach the dedi-
catory sermon or the Methodist E;ds-
copjl church. South, of this city Sun-
day. the 25th. This clurch was
erected four years ago and has just
been cleared of debt,
Yieid of 35.000 Tons is Expected In
Oklahoma
GUTHRIE: Secretary Thoburn. ol
the board of agriculture, estimates the
broom corn at one-third ot a ton pet
acre. This would place the output
at more than three times the amount
produced in 1902. and about four times
as much as last year. About 300.000
acres were planted in broom corn last
spring, and at the estimate given the „ll(J
present crop will yield about 35.000 J statement
tons. Present indications are that the year.
product will bring about $55 a ton.
This means that the broom com grow | Jennings Oil WelTs^,.
er. will realize in the aggregate |1, JENNINGS: The lirs, oil well ,or
.«
tory was only 11.200 tons, and last ern part of tho count"^ and Is «
years about 9 ,00 tons. In 1902 the , paoity is estimated a, one hund«"i
ir?.P,..r°.UvK„ Van.a^t',raf?e 1'0 a tOD' j barrels per day. Tbe quality of ibn
arrestc-d in Evansville. ind The
commissioner bound *uer over to
await the action of the grand jury.
rTi^e,?tXPumpkins on 0ne vine
CHECOTAH. Milo O Lawrence
for jears a resident of Kansas City
b t now of this place has in his pos-
session twenty large pumpkins which
he will photograph and use as an il
lustration of the rertllity ot Indfan
Territory soil. The twenty p„mi,
Kins, he says, grew from one seed
and upon one vine on the vacant lot
of L. A. Johnson, a banker or this
Place. on Mr. Johnsons lot are
also rive peach trees which wer..
started from the seed two wars
and. according to Mr. Lawrences
bore luscious Truit this
making the total value of the crop a
little more than JSOO.OOO. Since that
time, however, there has been a gradu-
al depreciation in the market. How-
ever. many rarmers will hold their
broom corn until late in the hjpe that
the old price will be restored.
product is said to be superior 'to insiiv
wells in the Indian Territory. w|,.>r«
It was thought oil had reachcd
highest degree or purity in tho hum
form. Other wells will b« botod m
the Jennings district.
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