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The Cushing Independent.
DEATH IN D. & O. WRECK.
CUSHING,
OK'.A
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NEW STATE NEWS.
Cleveland has just dedicated a fine
new Masonic temple.
A company of Dallas men is pre-
paring to build a $50,000 cold storage
at Chickasha.
R. S. Richardson, a negro who was
trying to steal a ride, was run over
and killed by a Rock Island passenger
train at Shawnee.
It Is no longer a question of how
much corn, oats, broom corn and cot-
ton the farmers ean raise, but how
much they can market.
Burglars entered a Lawton saloon
one night rooently and escaped with
a few dollars and two hundred quarts
of fine wlnos and liquors.
Forty Are Killed and One Hundred
Injured Near Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON: Probably forty
people, many of them Washlngton-
ians, were killed and nearly one hun-
dred injured, some of whom will die,
in a disastrous wreck at C:30 Sunday
evening, on the Metropolitan branch
of the Baltimore* & Ohio railroad at
Terra Cotta station.
It will probably be several days be-
fore the exact number of dead Is
known and owing to the fact that so
many bodies were horribly mangled
and scattered, it may be impossible
to ever determine the exact number.
The wrecked train was No. 86 from
Frederick, Md., bound for Washing-
ton. It was standing at Terra Cotta
station when from the rear came an-
other train of empty "passenger
coaches which crashed Into It with
frightful force, telescoping the three
rear cars of the passenger train, which
were crowded with passengers.
The engineer of No. 66, taken un-
awares by the shock, threw open the
throttle of his engine and his shat
WILL LOCATE
COUNTY SEATS
CONVENTION TO FOLLOW UP ITS
COUNTY FORMATION.
IS ONLY TEMPORARY
JOHNSON OF PERRY OUTLINES
COURSE TO BE PURSUED.
County Seat Election Will Be Held
About 60 Days After President
Issues Proclamation Approv-
ing New 8tate Constitu-
tion As Adopted.
GUTHRIE: That the constitutional
convention will temporarily locate
INDIANS FAVORED IT
The city council of Norman has
granted a 50-year franchise over cer-
tain of the streets of the city to the
Tecumseh, Guthrie and Norman In-
temrban electric line.
While making a coupling, J. M. Mc-
Laughlin, a Frisco brakeman, was
caught between two cars at Chandler
and seriously Injured. He was re-
moved to the Sapulpa hospital.
One of the natural gas companies
iat Blackwell suffered a disastrous'fire
during the holidays and the consum-
ers who were depending upon the
company far fuel were in serious
straits.
The Miles Allen Mercantile estab-
lishment and a negro eating house at
Meridian were destroyed by fire at
a total loss of about $9,000. Mr. Allen
estimated his loss at $8,600 and car-
ried $5,000 insurance.
Authorities over the country have
been notified to look out for Private
Tolpot, of Troop M, Thirteenth cav-
alry. who deserted from Fort Sill.
The indications are that Tolpot has
made good his escape.
Alleging that he had purchased a
ticket to Checotah, but was ejected
from the train at North McAlester,
Campbell Russell, a prominent cattle-
man, has brought suit against the M.,
K. and T. railroad for $2,601.20.
Tho government has already clean-
ed ur nearly half a million dollars'
profit in its sale of postage stamp
hooks In the past four years and Post-
master General Cortelyou says that
the saleB are constantly increasing.
county Beats throughout the new state,
tered train was pulled some distance 'n counties newly drawn, is the state-
up the track. It was a splintered, dis- ! nient made by Delegate Henry S.
torted mass, and among the wreckage | Johnston of Perry, one of the promi-
many of the unfortunate passengers.[ nent floor leaders in the convention.
"We have fixed permanent county
boundary lines, but not the county
seats," said Delegate Johnston.
"They will be located temporarily
and the manner of making them per-
manent will be left to a vote of the
people of the different counties in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the
ordinance submitting the result of our
were entangled, and these, with
screams of agony, were dragged along
tho rails, many of them to their
death.
That the train was crowded Is shown
by the fact that many of the passen-
gers were standing in the aisles of
the three wrecked oars.
They were caught without warning
of a mile which the wrecked train
traverSted the dead ana wounded were
scattered everywhere.
HAMON MADE CHAIRMAN.
and such was the shock that they wero to the people " For he lnforml
hurled in every direction. One of tlQQ Qf ^ x wjsh °
the cars turned over and buried some , the enab ^ the conventlon
of the wounded benea h the debris | the power tQ enact an ordlnance flx.
and along the line for about an eighth , ,ng tlme aQ(J nianner of 8ubmittlng
for the approval of the people of the
state. The constitution will provide
for its being submitted and thos£
clauses or articles on which diversity
of opinion exists will be submitted
separately to bring out a separate
Vote."
By this Mr. Johnston is supposed to
mean the prohibition question, the sale
of the school lands and perhaps worn
an suffrage. Continuing, Mr. John-
ston said:
"Among other things provided in
the ordinance will be a complete pri-
mary election for nomination of all
officers of both parties to be voted
upon, from township Jurisdiction to
governor. The ordinance will also
Taw Republican Organization Formed
at McAlester Saturday.
SOUTH M'ALESTER: Members of
the executive comnllttees of the re-
publican organizations of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory met here Satur-
day and organized under one body
to direct the affairs of the party until
the state convention to be arranged
by the constitutional convention is
announced. Jake> L. Hamon of Law-
ton, who was manager of the last
campalRn, was elected chairman. ! pi^g jn effect a complete statute gov-
Grant Victor, chairman of the Indian erning affalrs untll changed by the
Territory, was elected vice ohairman, , legislature. The ordinance will pro-
and O. A. Wells, secretary. The meet- j y^e that the county seat election will
ing was attended by the leading re- j be ^eld about 60 days after the presi-
publicans of the new state. There dent issues his proclamation approv-
was much enthusiasm in the discus- | jng the constitution and declaring
sion of plans for the coming cam-
paign.
ALL NEGRO TROOPS TO GO.
The Canadian Valley Railroad com-
ipany has filed a deed of trust for $6,-
jBOO.OOO at Oklahoma City In favor of
the United States Mortgage and Trust !
company, covering a right-of-way be-
ginning at a point near Woodward
and extending southeast through
Woodward, Dewey, Blaine, Kingfisher,
Canadian and Oklahoma counties.
John Perkins, residing five miles
north of Shawnee, was bitten in the
neck by a rat while asleep. When
he awoke his bed was saturated with
blood and ho oould scarcely more. He
was taken to the Shawnee hospital,
but physicians state that loss of blood,
and poison from the bite will cause
his death.
A telephone company, backed by
Don Farasworth, a wealthy promoter
of Chicago, has applied for a franchise
In Tulsa to compete with the Pioneer
Telephone company. Tho corporation
Is capitalised at $25,000 and promises
cheaper rates.
Congress Will Consider Discharge of
All Negro Soldiers.
WASHINGTON: When congress
takes up the Brownsville trouble again
It will be 4o consider a proposition
to discharge all negro troops from
the army. Tho outbreaks at Forts
Leavenworth, Sheridan and Reno
which followed the discharge of the
troops at Fort Reno have about per-
suaded the war department that dras-
tic action is necessary.
Four regiment^, the Ninth and Tenth
cavalry, and tho Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth infantry, would be af-
fected.
Representative Slayden of Texas
will present the discharge resolution
to congress.
Representative Stephens, of Texas,
has Introduced a resolution in the
house asklmg that Secretary Hitch-
cock be requested to furnish tho
house with full information concern-
ing his refusal to allot to Indians of
the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
the land on which they live.
Nathan Dyer, a Rock Island section
boss living near Sayre, Is In jail on
a charge of murdering his wife. Some
time ago, according to the allegations,
he had trouble with his wife and as-
saulted her. He left Sayre, securing
employment near Oklahoma City. His
wife soon died of premativre child
birth and it Is charged In the com-
plaint that the beating was the cause.
YULSA: In attempting to arrest
Andy Harland and Clyde Gilbert for
selling whisky at a dance at Dawson,
a town near here, Wednesday morn-
ing. Deputy United tSates Marshal
Strickland was shot in the neck by
one of tho bootleggers and is probably
fatally wounded.
EXPLAINS CAR SHORTAGE
Santa Fe Says It s Natural Result of
Conditions at Terminals
TOPEKA: W. J. Black, general
passenger traffic manager for the At-
chison, Topeka & Santa Fe, says that
the car shortage on tho Santa Fe is
the natural result of conditions exist-
ing at Galveston and San Francisco.
"Iji Gejveston," sal Mr. Black, "there
are 4,500 freight cars filled with
wheat. There are not enough ships
there to haul away the wheat which
Is stored In tho elevators. Tho eleva-
Oklahoma a state, and for that pur-
pose the poll-sheets used in the elec-
tion adopting the constitution will be
treated as the registration list of qual-
ified voters for county seat elections.
"A review will be had of the work
in making the county boundaries.
Some of the counties are of irregular
shape, many boundaries following
rivers, creeks and mountain ranges,
and the chances for mistakes, errors
and omissions are sp numerous that
I made the motion to reconsider the
matter for the purpose of curing any
defects or errors that may have crept
In. I have already found a section of
land, six hv twelve miles, that has
been left out of all counties. In mak-
ing the districts for the constitutional
convention, the governor, secretary
and chief justice overlooked three
townships entirely, which were never
placed in any district, and the people
of those townships were denied the
right to vote In the late election. So
It Is possible that with us the same
condition might result. There Is but
one way to prevent errors and that
Is for each delegate to agree with his
neighbor on the boundary lines be-
tween their districts and counties."
He married the seamstress because
he loved her sew.
OSAGE PASTURE LEASES.
Withdrawal of 4,000,000 Acres of In-
dian Territory Land for Forestry
WASHINGTON: Gifford Pinchot,
chief of the forest service, has ap-
proved a rough draft of a report to
the secretary of agriculture\ relating
to the 4,000,000 acres of land in In-
dian Territory whose withdrawal for
forest reserve purposes brought about
criticism of the secretaries of the in-
teior and agriculture, by a senate
committee.
The report will be a defense of the
withdrawal of the lands, which are
located in the Choctaw and Cherokee
nations, and will show, first, that the
proposed forestry reserve was asked
for primarily by the Indians them-
selves; second, that the maintenance
of a forest on the proposed area will
furnish a much needed continuous
supply of timber and wood for local
use, and also prevent disastrous floods
along 1,000 miles of the Red river
in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana,
where immense sums are now ex-
pended for levees; third, that the for-
est reserve would not take up all the
residue of land after allotments to
the Indians.
The report will further insist that
the secretary of the interior's action
in temporarily suspending allotments
was not only within his ri«bt. but
that he would have been remiss had
he done otherwise.
As a result of careful inspection bv
the forestry bureau, a recommenda-
tion will be made to the secretary ef
agriculture, who will undoubtedlv
transmit it to the secretary of the in-
terior, that the area originally with-
drawn can be reduced one-half by
leaving out the part in the Cherokee
nation and all the lands within 20
miles of the Missouri, Kansas & Tex-
as railway in the Choctaw nation. This
report, which it is expected the sec-
retary of the Interior will make pub-
lic, will show that considerably more
than half the reduced area is valu-
able for agriculture, and can be al-
lotted In the near future after exami-
nation to determine its areable char-
acter.
Notwithstanding the contention that
secretary of the Interior had no war-
rant of law i to segregate the
lancVs, the contention being that they
primarily belong to the Indians, it is
understood that the withdrawal will
take place and that the Indians have
the right to try out the authority of
the secretary In the courts.
MERCINC OF
ASSOCIATIONS
NEW STATE PEDAGOGUE8 JOINED
IN HOLY WEDLOCK BOND8.
BUCK FOR PRESIDENT
ELECTION OF OFFICER8 AND
ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTON.
CUTTNG TIMBER ON RSERVE.
Interior Department Officials Stop
Such Slaughter in Comanche.
LAWTON: The Interior depart-
ment oficials here have taken active
measures to put a stop to the cutting
and removing of timber from the mil-
itary wood reserve in the eastern part
of the county. Their attention was
called to the slaughter of the tim-
ber and notices are being printed to
be posted in the wood reserve warn-
ing all pesrons against cutting tim-
ber there.
"Violators of this order will be pros-
ecuted both criminally and civilly,"
said Judge Witten. e declares that the
cutting of timber there is a violation
of the federal law and that violators
may be punished by the federal au-
thorities. It is probable that this tract
at the present time may be classed
with government forest reserves and
the same law that protects the latter
will apply to the former.
Largest Attended Meeting in History
of Southwest Successfully Over-
comes Difficulty in Amalga-
mation—Dr. David Starr
Jordan Lectures.
SHAWNEE: The Oklahoma Teach-
ers' association ai^l that part of tho
Indian Territory Teachers' associa-
tion In session here, comprising mora
than half of the latter brganizatloO;
amalgamated Friday as one associa.
tion, to be known as the Oklahoma
State Teachers' association.
An invitation was extended to tho
part of the association In session at
Muskogee to join the new amalgamat-
ed association next year, and there
was little doubt that course would be
adopted, as in the amalgamation here
no factions were recognized.
After the formal adoption of the
j amalgamation resolution the new as-
; sociation was divided Into five die-
! tricts, to conform to the congressional
! districts, and from each of these two
i members of a nominating committee
were selected, and the following offi-
cers were elected for the coming year:
President, Supt. Buck of Guthrie;
| vice president, N. L. Cowart of Wil-
' burton; secretary, Miss Maude Wid-
daman, Caddo county; treasurer, Supt.
| McCabe of Kingfisher; executive com-
mittee, chairman, Supt. Masters ot
! Tulsa, and Supt. Kersey of Newkirk
' and Supt. Balcomb of Chandler. The
j executive committee will name the
meeting place for next year.
The formal adoption of a const!tu-
i tion was a matter of short time after
I the report of the executive commlt-
; tee was read and the formal business
was then concluded.
Friday afternoon and night the pub-
lic and the teachers heard addresses
by Dr. David Starr Jordan of Leland
Stanford university of Oklahoma on
the work of state universities.
The meeting was the largest at-
tended In the history of state meet-
ings In the southwest, and what
seemed a difficulty in the way of
amalgamation was successfully over-
come.
of
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Opposition Against the Renewal
the Contracts
WASHINGTON: The question
to whether the government will lease
the big pastures in the Osage and
Otoe reservations any more will be
settled by the Interior department
within a few days. Commissioner
Leupp of the Indian bureau is deluged
with protests against further leasing.
They come from all the small farm-
ers, merchants and progressive Indi-
ans of that section. They assert that
Has
A branch lodge of th® Anti-Horse
Thief association has been organized
at Foraker, with W. T. Simon presi-
dent and B. E. Hall secretary. About
40 members are included in the char-
ter. It Is aaid that several horses
have been stolen In the vicinity of
Foraker In the past few months and
only one recovered.
Sheriff at Walnut Groves, Kan,
Him in Custody.
WALNUT GROVES: Captain Mack-
lin s assailant is in the custody of
the sheriff of this county, according
to advices received from Oklahoma
C1ty and Fort Reno. He gives the
tors are* full' and it is Impossible to I it is absolutely Impossible to raise I °f Alfred Livingston, is a white
Frank James Bids
LAWTON: Frank James, the former
Missouri outlaw, was one of the bid-
ders on the Indian pasture lands, and
the probabilities are that his bid will
be rejected because of a technical
error in filling out the blank bid form.
The bid was opened a few days ago
and publicly read. James gave his
postoffice address as Cement, Okla.,
having recently spent several months
in that vicinity with his son.
James wanted a farm in the new
country on which to raise fine horses
and hogs and to experiment with sev-
eral cereals that have not heretofore
been grown here.
RACE FEELING HIGH
ASSAILANT OF MACKLIN.
Negro Soldier Assaults White Woman
on 8treets of El Reno
EL RENO: Race feeling was at
white heat and threats of lynching
were heard on every hand as a result
of an assault committed on Mrs. T.
S. Clifford, wife of a prominent phy-
sician, by a negro supposed to be a
soldier of the Twenty-fifth Infantry.
Mrs. Clifford and her sister, Mrs. S.
H. Clarke, were attempting to pass
the soldier, when he viciously grabber
Mrs. Clifford around the waist an<f
threw her into the street, exclaiming
that the sidewalk belonged to him.
Mrs. Clarke screamed for assistance
and her assailant fled, escaping before
help arrived.
The negro escaped and the chase
was given up because if he is a sol-
dier he would have to return to the
fort or be pursued as a deserter.
A company has been organized to
pipe natural gas Into Hobart. Four
wells have been sunk on the farm of
G. W. Stone, and flows 6,000,000 cubic
feet daily are said to have been de-
veloped.
ASKS CONGRESS TO LEGALIZE IT
get our cars away from there until
they are empty. In San Francisco
they are rebuilding the town. So soon
as a man gets the first story of his
new building erected he wires east
and orders a stock of goods. Our cars
arc then used to haul the stock to him
and we can not get thoni empty and
back in a day or two. The cars are
all In use and the conditions at the
terminals are largely responsible for
the shortage."
good cattle as long as Texas stock is
; allowed to come Into the pastures and
( scatter Texas ticks.
j The full blood Indians are the only
ones who want the leases renewed.
They want their grass money. Dele-
gate McGulre is making a fight to pre-
vent the pastures being leased again.
The Dallas and Beaumont lines of
the Southern Pacific railroad were
tied up suddenly Wednesday night by
strike of all switchmen, firemen and
brakeman.
man, and answers the description of
the individual who shot the Fort Reno
officer about a week ago. He was ar-
rested on the charge of breaking into
a postoffice in a small town near here,
and is now being held pending the ar-
rival of the Oklahoma officers.
When captured the man was wear-
ing an army uniform, but did not have
the hat. He has a rather dark skin
and might, be easily mistaken for a
mulatto. The local officers claim the
man is a noted hold up artist and
desperate character.
Leupp Thinks White Children Should
Attsnd Indian Schools
WASHINGTON, D. C.: Commission-
er Leupp of the Indian office, will ask
congress to legalize the practice of
the department In permitting white
children to enter Indian schools on
the same basis as Indian children are
permitted to enter white schools It
Is a policy of the Indian office to>
break up the Indian reservation
wherever possible, allot the lands
bwned by the Indians and put the
wards of the government on a self-
supporting footing.
To do this effectively, old barriers
are being broken down and the Indi-
ans in many sections of the country
are attending the district, schools, the
Indian bureau paying Into the county
or state treasury the cost per capita
of the Indian's education as assessed
against the white children, which
amounts to about $2 per quarter. In
many localities of the west and north-
west, Indian schools are the only
schools In widely separated areas.
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Holland, Al. H. Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1907, newspaper, January 3, 1907; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc274934/m1/2/: accessed July 2, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.