The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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DUJME VII. i
ARDMORE IND. TER.f THURSDAY EVMIN& DECEilBER 14 18991
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Prrtctr.
C. C. HEI1IKG
YiM PreslienL
C. L iHDESSOS
Cutler.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
I ; Ardmorc Indian Territory.;
YSnital Paid UpJ--$60000.00
Surplus runu
: OLDEST BAflK 111 THE II1DIAII TERRITORY.
" 1(j on all parts of the world. Accounts of firms and individuals
Jteited upon the most liberal terms consistent with good banking. V."
C. L HESIISG I TO PROTECT THEIR INTEREST:
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Pnrsuant ' to adjournment' tte
farmers convened last night at the
ciry hall for the purpose of look-
ing further into the question vof
their relief. The officers were in
their accustomed places and about
90.000.00
dnce ssrire to a state of cultivation
fence "and erect .certain improve
menU' ou their respective farms.
That thoasands . and . thousands
of farms1 have been reduced t6 cnlr
tivatroaand unproved and equip
ped witti all necessary fencing and
houses under the terms pt such
contracts the terms of which con-
tracts vary frdm three to ten years.
That thousands' of said contracts
have not yet expired and thous-
WE'VE GOT 'EM YOU WANT 'EMI
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seventy-five farmers present.
From J. U. Purciller of Newport lands of farmers in the Chickasaw
we learn that the meeting for the
INSURE WITH.
BRUCE v TORBETT
Fire Insurance Agents.
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Ardmore. I. T.
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J 'iU National Bank Building
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Cental
Real Estate
Kire Insurance
1 and Abstracts.
I A line of the best insurance companies represented. All
business entrusted to us snail receive our personal
attention.
ISDAL.TROUTMAN BRIDQMAN
laters-Plerce Oil Co..
i Headquarters for
est Coal Oil Linseed Oil Gasoline
Castor Oil Lubncating Oil
I Turoentine Sewing Machine Oil.
araffin Wax Candles Axle Grease.
Courteous treatment. Yout trade solieitedi
P. H. NEILSON Agent Ardmore
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)ver!oaded
ON.
FLANNELS
MEN'S UNDERWEAR
BLANKETS .
COMFORTS AND
CLOTHING.
Wiing in these lines will go so cheaplthat
if you need them you will be
forced to buy.
R. W. RAN DO L.
greater part was harminous and
was a stroke ia the right direction.
The memorial as framed by their
committee will be somewhat re
vised before being senj to the nat-
ional congress and a letter will be
forwarded at the same time to the
secretary of the interior. For fear
that attempt will be made to oust
them from their leases before con-
gress or the secretary affords any
mean? of relief the farmers are
subscribing funds for the purpose
of employing legal talent in their
defense. A fund of $10." was rais
ed last night and other amounts
will be deposited from time to time.
The farmers say they have built
their churches and schools here
have dug the stumps and trees
from their farms built comforta
ble homes and do not intend to
leave them until every effort to
have what is justly due them is ex-
hausted. The next meeting will
be held at 4 o'clock in the after
noon of Tuesday December 19
The city hall has been given them
as a place of meeting. The fol
lowing sets fourth in plain terms
the object of the organization ' and
the requisited to membership:
Ardmore I. T. Dec. 13 '99.
The obj?ct of the non-citizens'
organization is lor sell derense in
defending those who are justly en-
titled to pay. for their improve
ments and not to contend for time
when the same shall have expired
and the way any farmer can be-
come a member and be defended in
his rights is to pay his money into
the City National Bank and get
his receipt for same. If no suit is
brought against any member he
can call and get his money other
wise if he would receive the bene
fits of the organization it must re
main. The money must remain in
tne oans at least six months and
any person who becomes a mem
ber will have the benefit of as many
members on his bond as the law
requires.
J. C. Purciller Committee.
The following memorial to con
gress was unanimously adopted:
Ardmore I. T. Dec. 13 1899.
The Senate and House of Representa
tives of the United States in Con-
great Assembled:
The undersigned committee an
pointed by a convention of farmers
from all portions of the Chickasaw
nation held at Ardmore on the
13th day of December 1899 re
specuuuy represent mat the pres
ent condition of the farming inter
esrs oi me inicnasaw nation was
brought about under the system of
leases or contracts by which the
individual Indians granted to Unit
ea oiaies citizens tne ngnt to use
and occupy farms in the Chicka
saw uanon on conuuion that said
Lnited States citizens would re
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MASON & MASONS
On tne south side of West Main keep not only everything kept in a First-Class Drug
Store but they have a stock of well selected
Vy Books Handsome Dolls
Pleasing Toys and Husical Instruments
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Finest French Candies Kept in the City.
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fJlfeil to visit their store if yon want something for yourself or for a friend.
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nation have not had possession
and use of the farms improved and
put in cultivation by . them long
enough to pay them for the capital
and labor expended by them.
The most 01 the farmers in the
Chickasaw nation are poor men
dependent upon their labor and
production of the soil for a living
for themselves and families. That
under the provisions of what is
known as the Atoka Agreement
the government of -the Chickasaw
and Choctaw nations are continu
ed in existence for eight years
from and after the 4th day of
March 18J8 and from representa
tions made by the Dawes commis-
sion and from the slow progress
made by them in the preparation
of the Indian tribes fcr the allot
ment of their lands it is almost
certain that the Indian will not be
ready for allotment before the ex
piration of said eight years.
the actor congress known as
the Curtis bill provides that all
agricultural leases in the Chicka
saw and Choctaw nations expire
on the 1st day of January 1900.
The manifest purpose of that pro
vision was to have the country m
readiness for the Dawes cornmis
gion to put the individual Indian
in possession cf his allotment; bu
it appearing that the Dawes com
mission has not pro-jresspd far
enough with its work to deliver
the allotment to the individual
Iudian and there being no neces-
sity for the enforcement of the
Curtis till terminating agricultural
leases pn the 1st day of January
li'OO.wa respectfully submit that it
would Be unjust and cause great
hardships and misery among the
farmers in the Chickasaw nation
to enforce such provision termin-
ating agricultural leases ejecting
farmers from their claims and put
ting the Indian in possession there
of.
We make these representations
in view of the fact that there is no
public necessity for such action.
on the part of the United States
court and in view of the further
fact that the Hon. -Tarns Jiixby
acting chairman of the Dawes com-
mission in a communication dated
at Muskogee Ind. Ter. November
15 1899 has stated in substance
that the citizen who desires to
dispossess the lessee holdin
Chickasaw or Choctaw land after
January 1 1900 may advise the
Dawes commission of the fact and
we will proceed through the In
dian agent and have said lessee
removed from the land in his pos
session-" and that the law of con
gress relative to the dispossessing
of the lessee after January 1
1900 will undoubtedly be enforced.
Since the publication of that
communication many citizens of
the Chickasaw nation in violation
of their leases and contracts with
the farmers of the Chickasaw na
tion have given such lessees no
tice to surrender possession of their
farms on the 1st day of January
next. Much agitation has been
caused by the publication of that
communication and service of such
notices. The amount of the injury
that would be done the farmers of
the Chickasaw nation by dispos
sessing them of the farms improved
by them on the 1st day of January
next can hardly be estimated in
dollars.
The country is full of rnmors to
the effect that it is the purpose and
intention of the secretary of the in
terior to cause the Indian police
to dispossess the farmers of their
J farms on or before the 1st of Jan
uary next and put Indian citizens
in possefsiou thereof.
The undersigned on behalf of
the farmers in the Chickasaw na
tion respectfully petition congress
of the United States fully consider
the rights and interests of the farm
ers in their unexpired leaseholds
and to not enforce the provision
aforesaid terminating their leases
on the 1st day of January next.
but to extend them until such ex
piration is made absolutely neces
sary by the allotment of lands
i in severalty to the Indians.
The lease holders do not desire
to obstruct the officers of the gov
' i We are better prepared than ever to meet your wants
Florida Oranges . California Oranges.
Mexican Oranges Almonds
New York Bald Apples
New York King Apples. Bananas.
New York. Spy Apples Peanuts.
Cocoanuts Filberts Pecans
English Walnuts Candies All Kinds
Brazil Nuts Figs. Dates. Etc.
ALBATROSS FLOUR
To make your cake. See us before you buy.
We will save you money.
WHITEMAN BROS.
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"Plansifter" "Golden Crown"
and ROLLER CORN MEAL..
S'fade by the Ardmore Mill & Elevator Co. is as good or better than
any oihtr o'ffered in Ardmore and it is as cheap too. Kemember the
brands aud ask your grocer lor them.
ARDMORE MILL & ELEVATOR GO.
J. WOLVERTON
President.
DON LACY
Cashier. .
A. H. PALMER
Assistant Cashier. .
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK
Capital and Surplus..
$65000.00.
Accounts of firms and individuals solicited and courteous treat
ment accorded all alike.
efnment in alloting the lands to
the Indians but they ask fair
and impartial investigation into the
conditions and terms by whieh
they have improved the farms for
the Indians in the Chhkasuw na-
tion and respectfully submit that
no public necessity demands that
thev be dispossessed of such tarms.
until the country is ready for allot
ment to the Indians. That it would
he unfair and inequitable to permit
the Indian citizen to take possession
of the farms leased by them long
before the time for which they were
leased expires and thereby wrong-
fullj deprive the farmers who have
improved the farms of the btmefit
of the labcr and capital expended
bv them on such farms.
Heretofore the Indians who have
leased farms to white men in the
Chickasaw nation have in the
main been hor est with their les-
sees and have not tried to deprive
them of the use and possession ' of
the farni before their leases expir-
ed and they are not now demand-
ing that this be done. A greater
part of the disturbance now pre-
vailing in the Chickasaw nation
has been caused by persons recently
admitted to citizenship and their
attorneys who have represented
them before the Dawes commission
and the courts for a contingent in-
terest in the lands to which citizen-
ship entitles them. It is these In-
dians and their attorneys who are
flooding the country with notices to
the lessees demanding the sur
render of their farms on the 1st of
Jtnuary 1900.
All of which is respectfully sub
mitted.
J. W. Gumm Chairman.
J. M. Bryant Sec.
I. M. Hobbs.
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DRUGSTORE!
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