The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 247, Ed. 1 Monday, August 15, 1898 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME V
ARDMOliE. IK 1)IAN TERRITORY. MOVDAY EVENING AUGUST 151898.
NUMBER 247
Insurance That Insures.
PERTINENT POINTS
Curtis Bill and Atoka Treaty
S. W. Peel Attorney for the
Chickasaw at Washington.
We lepresent Fifteen of the strongest Companies in
America ee us for PoliciiM on
t-Fire Accident Cyclone and Life.
Oflice Over First National Bank.
CORNELIUS & BRUCE
ARDMORE. I. T
(EfJTRAL - LBf ERV - STABLE
On
For the best rigs.
North Caddo St.
Special attention to commercial trade
HARPER WALLER Prods
2
Kentuchy Whishey Deoo!
WINE: 3 and LIQUORS
For Medical Purposas.
Tmaoz Mam
Mwnua.
Mail Orders will Receive our Prompt Attentio
HENRY WATERMAN
Gainesville Texas
MAX HEY MAN
WINES AND LIQUORS
postofflce box 317. GAINESVILLE. TEXAS.
Prompt Attention ?iven to Mail Orders.
St. Agnes' Academy
of irdmore Indian Territory
A BOARDING SCHOOL FOR YOUNS LADIES
Under the Direction of the
l
Sisters of Mercy j
Will open the school year of 189K-1899. on
Thursday the 1st of September. Thursday
and Friday the 1st and 2d of September will
be occupied in the examination of pupils iu
order to determine the irraile they will be
allotted and to permit classes to open on the
following Mondav. The rates for day pupils
will vary from il.00 to $3.00 a month accord-
ing to grade the pupil will occupy. Music it
taken will be charged at the rate of $4.00 a
month extra. When more than two children
from the same family are pupils of the Acad-
my. a reduction will be made.
No child under six years of age will be ad-
mitted. Boys from six years of age ami
over will be admitted so long as they re-
main docile and show no sign of insubordi-
nation. When they become unruly they will
be quietly dropped from the rolls of the
Academy.
The school shall be a purely secnlar insti-
tution and no attempt shall be made to
change the religious views of the children.
Good moral conduct -will be required from
all pupils at all times but the Sisters will
not be responsible for the children once
they are outside the grounds of the Acad-
emy. The Right Reverend Theophile Meer-
cbaert D. D Bishop of the Diocese has
the school under his personal supervision
and will guarantee the people of Ardmore
and of the Chickasaw nation a school sec-
ond to none in the south.
Music painting and drawing and In fact
all the branches taught in a first-class
Academy will also be taught in St. Agnes'
Academy of Ardmore.
For further particulars and rates for board-
era applv to
FRANCIS E. HALL
aMiu Catholic Priest In Charge.
FURNITURE
Bed Room Sets $10.00 to $75.00.
Bed Steads $1.75 up.
Folding Beds $10.00 and up.
Ts'ice Center Tables $1.00 and up.
Extension tables and kitchen table
book cases chiffoniers wardrobe
looking glasses mattresses spring-
pillows chairs and rockers all styli .-
and prices shades curtain poles la(
and tapestry curtains baby carriage-
carpets nigs matting oil cloth an-
sewinti machines.
We have a number of goods that i
not named here. Come and see our
goods and get the lowest price thiU
can be had.
A. C. YOUNG.
DP. A- B
DB. C. F. WOOD.
DR. N. C. WOOD
The latest improvement for Crown
and Bridge work.
TrfM-nl anaesthetics administered for
the painless extraction of teeth.
All work guaranteed. Prices to suii
the times.
Office o'er Randol's store
A IIDMORK I T.
WOOD BROTHERS
KAN8AS CITY DENTISTS.
Offlee Hardy Building opposite
City National Bank.
Our specialty is crown and bridge
work. Ilnr nrinnn are as low as
Could hp naked frtr work that will
Rive von a life time satisfaction
made of the best material known to
ns. Teeth extracted absolutely with
out pain.
Ardmore I. T.
ADAMS
DENTIST.
JOHN L. OALT.
JOHS R. PULUAM
OALT & PULLIAM
Real Estate Rental and
Collecting Agency.
All business entrusted to us will
be' given prompt attention.
Office in rear of City
Bank. Caddo street
National
Ardmore. I. T
TURNER COTTAGE
Edgar Turner Manager.
Orrin M. Redfield
NOTARY PUBLIC
Real Estate and Rental Agent
Phone 48. ARpMORE I. T.
Urge and Commodious Sample Rooms.
Santa Fe Trains Stop lor leals.
Centrallj Located.
Bath Rooms ia Coinectlon.
Setting forth a few plain reasons
why the Choctaws and Chickasaw
should vote to ratify the .agreement
made at Atoka Indian Territory be
tween their government and tbt
United States at the coming election
as assembled by congress:
ALLOTMENT OF LANDS.
The allotment of your lands is per
haps the most important part
your local affairs.
CURTIS law.
Under the Curtis law yonr lands
will be allotted by a commission al.
of whom will be citizens of the Unit
ed States you will have no say or
voice in the matter and when allot
ed you will have nothing but a claim
you will have no title 'more than you
have now. Should you find yourself
land poor as many of you donbtleBs
will -you must remain so for you
can't sell a foot of it. The title wilt
remain in all the Indians and United
States under the Curtis law as it is
called.' All leases for your valuable
coal oil asphalt or other mineral
will be made by the secretary of in-
terior; be may be a good man and
he may not they are changed every
four years and many times oftener
frequently every few months he
may be Bill Jones to-day and Bill
Smith to-morrow you will never
know the rate of royalty . fixed by
him at his pleasure.
town sites.
Under the Curtis law jour town
first to be incorporated. A town
commission is to . be created the
town to be represented on said com-
mission the commission to lay out
the town and appraise the loti;
should they fail to agree on the value
of any lot then the secretary of the
interior to fix it. 1 wners . of im-
provement allowed to purchase any
and all lots at 60 cents on the dollar
of their appraised value tea months
after appt.isment owner of the im-
provements may purchase and in
two months pay 10 per cent of the 50
per cent and in six months 16 per
cent mure balance in three an-
nual installments all money on town
lots to be paid into treasury of the
United States to stand as a tender to
the tribe the tribe can . take it or
not. This is a little less than direct
confiscation and an insult to a free
people and ought not to be tolerat
ed. It will be observed that under
the Curtis law all moneys arising
from the sale of tow lots and roy
alty on minerals goes to the tribe
no exception made now if the Freed
men are enrolled as citizens and
lands allotted to them as such we
ask are they not members of the
tribe and as such members entitled
to their share of the money derived
from that source?
jurisdiction
Under the Curtis law if an Indian
citizen is indicted in the Upited
States court in the Territory for
homicide (killing any person) he
must stay and stand his trial though
local prejudice may be very great
not so under the agreement
CONTINUANCE OF INDIAN GOVERN
MENTS.
Under the Curtis law your govern
ments are at the mercy of congress
may be wiped out in a day and a
territorial government established
over you. The president would ap-
Doint a governor secretary of state
authorize the election of a Territo
rial legis'ature by all . the people
then your troubles would begin and
all kinds of annoyances to you would
fallow. . No wise and prudent Choc
taw or Chickasaw will want (his law
But you will have it unless you rat
ify the agreement : as amended by
congress. JJavingpointed out some
of the objections to the Ourtis law
as it is called I will with . your per
mission try to show some of the ad-
vantages the late agreement as
amended by congress will be to you
if ratified.
AGREEMENT AS AMENDED ALLOT
MENT.
The allotment of your lands as
stated before is the most important
question of all your loeal affairs.
Under the agreement each nation
is to have a representative of its own
on the commission to make the al
lotjoent to you so you will have
some voice in that important work
The grading and appraisement of
the lands for allotment is the very
basis of a fair and just allotment
and when so allotted it will be per
manent.' .When completed he exec
to each allottee a full and perfect
. title to his or her alifiment then yoi
will know wiat is yoars. In takin;
allotment each person will take 18-.
i acres covering his or her house am:
: improvements as a homestead thir
much cannot be sold for 21 years
i from date of patent after that time
: expires you can sell or not as you
like the balance may be sold by al
; lottee if of age and otherwise com -!
petent for a fair price to be paid
follows: 1-4 in one year after dati
I of patent 1-4 in three years and bal-
ance in five years after patent thir
you mav do or not as von like. Ii
j all cases of sale a fair price must bt
. paid. And under the agreement al
lotments are to be made to orphans
convicts and incompetents this i
not provided for at all in the Curti
law. Eacb allottee is to be place-
in actual possession of bis allotment
and all objectionable persons to tbt
allottee removed therefrom. Th
government of the United States t-
pay all expenses.
TOWN SITES.
Under the agreement the towns ii
each nation are to be laid off and
plated by a commission each
nation to have one member of its
o.vi on that commission to guard
the nation's interest. This commis-
sion will appraise the lots less the
improvements the owner of the im-
provements may purchase one resi-
dence lot and one business lot at 50
cents on the appraised value all
other lots to be sold at 62 1-2 cents
of the appraised value the money-
arising from the sale of all towi
lots to be paid into the United States
treasury for the use of the Indians
(freedmen excepted. Under the
Curtis law it will go to the tribe
froedmen and all when lots are sold
at the end of one yar all money to
be paid out to the Indians per capita
by an officer of the United States.
COAL OIL ASPHALT ETC. -
Under the agreement all coal oil
asphalt or other mineral to be re-
served from allotment and to be leas-
ed for a royalty under the supervi
sion of two trustees one to be ap-
pointed by the president upon the
recommendation of the principle
ohief of - the Choctaw nation the
other to be appointed by the presi-
dent upon the recommendation of
the governor of the Chickasaw Na
tion each to give bond for the faith-
ful performance of bis duty; to be
removed by the president for cause
rate of royalty is fixed in the agree
ment this most valuable property to
be reserved and money collected by
these two trustees and paid into the
treasury of the United States to be
used to educate Choctaw and Chick
asaw children by blood no freed
men in it. The Curtis law gives
to the tribe freedmen and all.
Ibis magnificent property will pro
duce revenue enough to educate
most thoroughly eyery Choctaw and
Chickasaw child now born or that
may be born fur twenty years or
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1 1. GOLJiEDGE & CO.
Main and Caddo Stbeets.
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Mir
Downins China 'Hall
. In connection with .
China Glassware' Cutlery Etc.
Carries a handsome stock of
Jardeneres Umbrel la-Stands '
With or without Pedestals. In Pottery Goods and Black Iron
Also. ComplBte Una of lc Cream Fraazers mi RaMtenlors
IStllflU ttl6
Question!-
There is nothing
mure vuvi c uj uvuaui w vwuivv .
with all persons in the great race of nicer than Tine piCtUreS
life it is too good to lose.
JURISDICTION.
Under the Ourtis law If an Indian f riendS. aS . the . VearS
is inaicieu in iuo uoiveu ot.w:. ywun
of your family and your
roll by 'they are the
for homicide (kL:'jrg any person) he greatest source of j pleasure and comfort
must stay ana be triea in mat court
Gainesville Texas.
utives of the two nations are re
quired by their deed under the seal
of their respective tribes to. tconvey
although great local prejudice may
exist there against him but under
the agreement if so indicted he can
file his affidavit with the clerk of the
court to the effect that be cannot
get a a fair trial in that court then
the court is bound to send his ease
to the United States court at Fort
Smith Arkansas or Paris Texas
for trial. This ia much better than
the Curtis law for the Irdian.
CONTINUANCE OF LOCAL GOVERN
MENT.
Under the Curtis law your govern
ments are at the mercy of congress.
an wipe you ont in a day. Under
the agreement they must stand for
eight years and perhaps longer un
til you are ready to come in as a
state of the union and thereby dodge
the perplexities of a Territorial gov
ernment. It is plainly seen that the
intention of the United States is that
with changed conditions as this
agreement will make that there will
be no necessity for further change
until the tribes are all ready for
statehood '
BALANCE OF LEASED DISTRICT.
The Ourtis law makes no provi
sions whatever lor the settlement
and payment to the Choctaw an d
Chickasaw nations for this large
amount of country that leaves you
lust .where you are ana nave oeen
tor a long time; does not propose to
pay a cent for it while under the
agreement as amended by congress
binds the government of the United
S&ESJT- HART-LING.
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SoHd Furniture. tiWe
carry a oodVUne and
handle only
New .Clean tGoods
and our prices are right
and if you will give us.a
call we will convince' you
Jeopve of the fact. .
Goo. Poland & Co Furniture.
SOLID Ml
Continued on page 4.
The Only Reliable-
Cream Bakery and -Confectionery
.of George J. Frashcr
.Keeps Constantly on Hand.
Fresh Bread 9 Hand 'Made Cakes a Specialty
Cardies FrniU and Nuts. This ia the pi ace to get .
the best meal in the city f or the money.
Mala Street
Ardiaora I. T.
G. J. FRASHCR.
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Drew, Byron. The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 247, Ed. 1 Monday, August 15, 1898, newspaper, August 15, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc615987/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.