The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), No. 515, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1908 Page: 4 of 16
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ANARCHY RAMPANT.
The atrocious efforts of anarchists
Id the past few weeks make evi'dence
sufficient to convince the hitherto
skeptical that emigration has been al-
lowed a freedom from restraint not
compatible with the wellbeing of our
country.
In a nation giving to its citizens
liberty of speech, action, and a right
to a voice in all governmental affairs,
the mere fact of one resident anarch-
ist is sufficient t0 strike terror to all
patriotic minds. Add to that the com-
mon knowledge they are organized
and pledged to remove from life our
ministers, teachers and peace offi-
cers, and the description of feeling be-
comes impossible to the most expres-
sive language of all tim^
The blow struck at Denver, when a
priest was killed at worship, was an
attack on organized society more
heinous even than the attempt to de-
stroy a civic ruler. To add to its ini-
quity, there seems to be people in our
country who seek to palliate it be-
cause they claim the offending party
is insane. Technically the statement
is, of course, correct, for no sane man
or person can be an anarchist.
There is some palliation for the
nihilist. Th&t person and organiza-
tion was created because of oppression
by authority, and a corruption so
damnable as to offer to the downtrod-
den no hope of relief, pave by the
blood of the oppressor. In its ini-
quity may be seen the light of reason,
because each official removal is an act
to prove that the people oppressed
and trod under the rules of right by
a military power have resorted to the
individual efl'ort for an <irplift.
But in a land where all are offered
the protection of authority and given
right to expression, an arm lifted to
destrby life, is an arm against all
things, and deserving of no sympa-
thy.
And the American people by neg-
ligence have made these things possi-
ble. In an effort to give a home for
all men no matter as to religion or
place of birth, we have allowed to
come through our gates men and wo-
men pledged to murder—sworn to de-
stroy our very existence as a Nation,
and who offer in return a reign of
blood, terror, and moral degeneracy
not surpassed by the orgies of Roman
disintegration.
And in letting down our bars to the
Immigrants regardless of any pre-
vious condition we have struck a blow
to the organized, intelligent army of
industrial men, forcing them to de-
fend themselves against the invader
by strict wiles, when the defense
• should have been the strong, implaca-
ble hand of the Republic!
Through the gates of our great
cities we have allowed the anarchist
to come unmolested, making little ef-
fort to hinder his coming, and taking
no heed of his movements, once allow-
ed to pollute our society.
To the credit of organized labor be
it said it has fought long and valiant-
ly aguinst this outrage. It has pub-
licly denounced, and by petition
begged the authorities to place the
terrier that this country might be
free from this scoilrge and pest. Be-
cause the actions could be better
screened by intermingling with in-
dustrial forces, anarchy has sought its
abiding place among the laboring
class, and each thrust has placed the
industrial element in that much hard-
er position.
The unfairness of it all, is that or-
ganized labor has been the graatept
and only organized opponent to free
and unrestricted emigration. It has
pointed out the dangers, and the re-
sults almost to the degree of perfec-
tion give to it the stamp and power of
prophesy.
Chicago has been the one great
municipality of the Republic with an
iron hand against anarchy. It has
suppressed it; struck it and made an
effort *0 kill it, with the result that
the chief peace officer of that great
municipality was attacked in his own
home, and hla child placed in the val-
ley of the shadow by reason of that They do not know what it is to in
attack.
With several of our industrial cen-
ters honeycombed by anarchistic
agencies, and their cowardly work
manifest in a dozen different locali-
ties in one half month, will the power
of authority still sit supine in the
magnificent eloquence of it8 stupidity,
and still refuse to take the necessary
step to stamp out this curse?
With its hands stained with the
blood of innocent and pure disciples
of civilization, the priests and priest-
esses of the order are sneering at the
inefficiency of authority t0 suppress
or control.
Surely the congress and the admin-
istration at Washington will take the
necessary steps to ftop this class of
immigration; at least ending the in-
flux from that direction. '
And, this done, little by little, aided
by every patriotic person, we will be
able to stop and confine all who are
now here, even if the strong, iron
hand of justice must call to her aid
the very agency of death with which
anarchy has brought itself into being.
Surely it is time. And just as surely
will all honest people come to the aid
cf constituted authority.
GRAFT IN "OEAO CHILOREN."
Muskogee. Okla., .March 4.—The
government has surveyors running
lines around timber allotments in
the Choctaw nation to secure proof
of some of the most remarkable frauds
that have ever come to light in the
history of Indian Terriory. It has been
found the grafters operating In the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations have
been making proof of deaths of Indian
children, getting administrators ap-
pointed and then buying tne timber on
the allotments of the supposedly dead
children, when in fact the children are
living. Representatives from the gov-
ernment offices have discovered scores
of cases of this character, nearly all
of them being fr.llblood Indian child-
ren.
Some of the most flagrant cases
have been selected, the government
has sufficient proof and there will be
wholesale arrests just as soon as the
surveyors now in the pine timber
lands make their reports.
There was one instance found
where a lawyer and a grafter had
two children in their office to have a
guardian appointed. They discovered
by accident that an error on the Indian
rolls showed the children classed as
deceased. Instead of having a guard-
Ian appointed these men went out and
got a fullblood Indian to make alleged
proof that the children were dead.
This proof they used to get an admin-
istrator appointed and then from the
alleged heirs of the children they
bought the timber on the allotments
and sold it to a lumber company buy-
ing timber in that section. The allot-
ments of "the two minors covered
nearly 2,00rt acres of land. The land
is worthless, but the pine timber is
very valuable.
The government investigation cov-
ers widespread graft of <4his charac-
ter that covers both Chickasaw and
Choctaw nations. Usually the Indians
children are found in tl.e Chickasaw
nation and their allotment as selected
by their "administrator" in the tim-
ber lands of the Choctaw nation, the
"administrator" being either the
grafter or the lawyer in the case.
A fullblood Indian is nearly always
used as a blind and a shield by the
grafters. The more ignorant he is
the better. He can not understand
what the grafters are saying to him
and when he signs the papers that are
drawn up to show proof of death of
Indian children he does not usually
know what he is doing, or else he is
in league with the grafters and makes
false affidavits of this nature for
money. Upon proof the county courts
have to appoint administrators. The
alleged heirs of these children ^re al-
ways fullblcods. They do not know
where the land 1b and do not care.
herit land and when the grafter offers
him $100 for the timber on a certain
allotment which he is told is his, he
usually takes the money and asks no
questions. He does not know any-
thing about the timber nor what it
is wor^h.
l*and in the timber section is worth-
less and for that reason an allot-
ment there sometimes runs up as high
as one thousand acres If it has
a fair amount of timber on it the
timber is worth three or four dollars
per acre as it stands. The grafter
will probably get three or four thou-
wili probably get thre or four thou-
sand dollars profit on timber on one
allotment. He sells direct to the big
timber companies and gets the cash.
It is but fair to say that the evidence
the government has obtained so far
does not indicate that the timber
companies know anything about the
graft.
The government men now in the
pine lands are there for the purpose
of finding out how much timber has
been cut off of the allotments that
have been grafted in this manner in
the cases they have in hand, and to
stop any further cutting.
Some of these grafters have been
confronted with proof that they have
sold timber from allotments of alleged
deceased Indian children when the
children are living, and they merely
shrug their shoulders and say, "Well,
the fullblood Indian made proof of
death on thees children and we can
not help it if they are alive."
While the Mggest graft in "dead
children" is going 011 in the pine
lands of the Choctaw nation, because
there is bigegr profit there, it is not
confined to that nation. It has crop-
ped out in all other nations, especial-
ly the Chickasaw nation. Today, a
woman, a citizen of the Creek nation,
came into the Indian agency with two
children whose allotments had been
sold by their father who alleged that
they were dead and that he had in-
herited their land. The children are
Emery and Emmet Roberts. Their
father, Jack Roberts sold their two
allotments to J. F. Neal for $2,000. He
Rhoades, the only eye witness ex-
cepting the wife, is still scared as a
result of the shooting and gives a
garbled account.
Officers were dispatched from Enid
as soon as the news reached here.
Instructions were to swear in several
deputies at Waukomis, eight miles
south and six miles from the killing,
t0 prevent violence by the neighbors.
Mrs. White will be arrested as an
accomplice to the crime.
"I shot in self defense," said Lowry
White in the Garfield county Jail.
"Hanstein was armed with a club."
White did not shoot in self defense,
but first attacked Hanstein with a
club and then shot, states Mrs. White.
"The men were talking about farm-
ing matters. It drifted to the old feud
and the assault case and Iiowry got
mad. He picked up a club but Mr.
Hanstein wrenched it from him.
"Lowry grabbed a shot gun near
where I was standing and shot Mr.
Hanstein as he started away."
Bad blood between White and his
neighbors has bee nevident for some
time. He has been particularly bit-
ter against Hanstein, who testified
against him in the trial in which he
was charged with brutally assaulting
his wife.
CATTLE CONVENTION ENDS
Enid ,Okla., Feb. 27.—At the meet-
ing of the Oklahoma Live Stock asso-
ciation, new officers were elected for
the ensuing year and Enid was again
selected as the place of meeting. The
commercial club and members of the
city council pledged the association
that before the next meeting takes
place a convention hall would be
erected to accommodate the crowds
that attend these meetings.
The following officers were elected:
R. M. Bressie, president, Bressie,
Okla.
John A. Saiu, vice president, El
Keno, Okla.
W. E. Bolton, secretary, Woodward.
J. J. Gerlach, treasu.°r. Woodward.
Executive committee: Joe C. Miller,
Bliss; T. A. Ellison, El Reno; F. S.
iurk, Enid; J. W. Woods, Carrier.
has since left the country. To prove ! ^ 'ie Improved Breeders association
to .Neal that the children were dead, conduct a show and sale of pure
bred stock the remainder of-the week.
All stock sold ii)) to the present time
has brought fair prices, but was not
as high as a year ago. Sales of cattle
and horses begin tomorrow and the
offering is larger than any previous
year.
he took him to the family burying
ground and showed two graves over
which there were gravestones with
the children's names on them. The
two children wereat home at the time
and Roberts told Neal that these were
his brother's children who had been
sent up from Texas tor him to raise,
as his own children were dead. The
mother appeared with the two child- '
ren and demanded that* they bo put ! Muskogee, Okla., March 2.—Gal-
in possession of the land. > breath and Chesley who are wildcat-
The government expects to make I in tlie ne*' °H field, at Bald Hill,
wholesale arrests of this character ' miles northwest of Muskogee, yes-
within a very short time. j terday brought in a monster gas well.
A man who came in from that place
MONSTER GAS WELL.
GRUDGE ENDS IN MURDER
Enid. Okla., March 4.—Culminating
a neighborhood feud tl\at has caused
several petty law suits and one charge
of murderous assault, Lowry White, a
prosperous farmer living near Wauko-
mis, shot and killed Fred Hanstein, a
neighbor. White escaped but was
captured 20 miles south at 4 o'clock
yesterday evening.
Two loads of buckshot were fired
says that the rush of gas is so strong
that th« well can lie heard roaring
six miles away.
CHARGE HIRED HAND
WITH DERELICTION.
Perry, Okla., March 4.—The sheriff
succeeded last week in arresting Wm.
Black, whom they had been looking
for since last September. The offen-
by White, both hitting Hanstein. Johnlder is charged with taking and appro-
Rhoades, a young man, who was in printing to his own use, certain prop-
the seat with Hanstein miraculously
escaped the fnsilade of shot. Rhoades
lashed his horses into a run after the
two shots and was out of range before
White could re-load.
As White fired the gun that had
been carried to him by his wife, who
three months ago besought neighbors
to have him arrested for murderous
assault upon her, alleging that he
tied her t0 a table and beat lier when
she was in a delicate condition, the
woman ran to the house and returned
with more ammunition to enable
White to finish his bloody work, ac-
cording to Rhodes.
erty belonging to Chris Lawson from
Missouri township, it appears from
the complaint that Black was working
for Lawson. and had been put. iu
charge of the farm and stock while
Mr. Lawson and family visited with
friends in Tulsa. Black hitched up
and hauled a load of Mr. Lawson's
wheat to town and sold it, took the
team home put it in the stable and
left tiie place. The stock was left to
suffer from want of food and water
until their condition was discovered
by some of the neighbors who tempor-
arily cared for them and notified Mr.
1 Lawson who, upon arriving home
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Hanstein was taken to his home . found that some small pigs had per-
where he died an hour afterward. iahed for want of water.
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