The Indian Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 7, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 12, 1899 Page: 2 of 4
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i The mammoth Store With Lots of Big Barg
We sell reliable merchandise only. No
other kind ever gets into our store. Are
3'ou one of our customer? If not why
not? It will be to "our mjutual advantage
for you to do your fall trading with us.
No matter whether it is Dry Goods Milli-
nery Hen's and Boys' Clothing and Furn-
ishings Boots and Shoes Hats and Caps
Gloves or Groceries. We are equally strong
in all lines. We would be pleased to have
you shop with us on any item you may
wish to purchase. We will convince you
that we sell better goods for less money
than any other store in Vinita. "Badgett's
prices are low prices" a fact easily proven.
TXIjaJT STORE IS
"rxxtsL9 Indian B3?o:r:r:Lto:ry.
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Prices Always Right.
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A BOYCOTT IS
The Indian Chieftain Goes Counter to the
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Cow Men's Wishes.
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A MIGHTY HOT FIGHT IN PROSPECT
By Insisting That They Be
Cherokee Revenue Law as the Merchants Coal
and Hay Men their Enmity is Engendered.
A MEETING CALLED FOR TOMORROW.
Having Dominated Cherokee Affairs
for years while even now seeking to
Dictate Federal Appointments they
Have Been Emboldened to Attack The
Chieftain for its "Presumption" in
Insisting that they be not Exempted
from the Operations of Law.
A Symposium of the Last Few
Days' Developments.
A coterie of cattle men held a
meeting in this city a day or Ivro
ago and decided upon an ultimatum
to The Indian Chieftain to the
effect that if the paper does not
stop advocating the collection of
the cattle tax due the Cherokee
nation that they will withdraw
their names from its subscription
list and refuse to give it any sup-
port or business whatever. We
have received and fully considered
tbe edict and have to say in re-
ply that these same cattle men
have our entire permission to go
straight to Hades: We will advo-
cate anything that in our judgment
is right and we don't propose to
be dictated to by any class or clan.
The day is past and forever gone
when one or two men can control
the town and country. We still
insist on the payment of all tbe
revenues due tbe Indians.
The Chieftain is not disturbed
over the few malcontents who
have announced war on the paper.
These people have been of little
benefit to it as patrons and gen-
erally exact more than they give.
The men who at each full and
change of the moon withdraw their
patronage have always either
wanted to dominate or destroy the
paper. We would rather fight
them in the open anyway. We
always like to have tbe enemy in
front and not in the rear.
Men who place everything upon
a money basis get sadly left in
their calculations frequently.
Three men in this city who owe
the Cherokee nation several thous-
and dollars in delinquent taxes
undertook to throttle. The Chief-
tain because the paper insisted
upon tbe justice of tbe demands
made by the interior department.
And now they swear they will
fight the government to a finish.
About the only people that would
be profited by such a fight would
be the attorneys in the case. The
government will collect the taxes
and the lawyers and court fees
will be extra.
Some of the cattle men who owo
a great deal of delinquent tax to
the Cherokee nation are going
about the streets abusing Inspector
J. George Wright as the author of
all their woes. This is certainly
a short sighted and narrow course
for these people to pursue. One
of our local cow men has now put
up for winter use on his ranch at
least $5000 worth of native prairie
grass upon which no revenue can
be collected aBthe royalty is only
on export. We have no quarrel
whatever with these cowmen but
as a matter of simple justice we
see no good reason why they
should not comply with the law
a good eitizens ought to and pay
ORGANIZED.
Held as Accountable to The
the tax due the Indians. They
have had the free and unrestricted
use of the Indian country for
grazing privileges for the last
twenty-five or thirty years. There
is absolutely no defense to offer
for the course they are now pur
suing. They have monopolized
the Cherokee country so long they
evidently feel like they had vested
rights therein. If the government
should no'w step in and disposess
these fellows and do something for
the common Cherokee Indian they
would raise a great howl. They
are as disloyal to the United
States government as they have
been to tbe Cherokees.
Inspector Wright said in sub-
stance the other day that the trial
of F. M. Smith was only an in-
cident in connection with the col-
lection of the revenues due the
Cherokee nation and would not
hinder the policy of the interior
department in the least. The rev-
enues all the revenues due the
nation will be collected in due
time Selah.
The assertion that is made by
some that the money collected as
royalties due the Cherokee nation
would all be absorbed by the offi-
cials in the way of salaries and
expenses is an error. The money
collected is placed to the credit of
the Cherokees and the salaries of
most of the officers are paid by the
United States government without
expense to the Indians. Under
these circumstances no reasonable
person could be opposed to the
course the government is pursu
ing m trying to secure to these
people what it can of their birth
right.
It is a source of satisfaction to
the Cherokees that nearly all of
the better element of citizens of
the United States residing in the
country are in sympathy with the
collection of the royalties due the
nation. The Indians have no bet-
ter friends among their own people
than many of the white men re-
siding among 'hem and they see
nothing wrong in enforcing the
payment of revenues due the na-
tion. We have been asking the ques-
tion for the last two weeks: Is it
not right that the tax on'hay
cattle merchandise etc. should
be paid as required by law? No
one hae ventured a negative an-
swer only some get mad and do't
want to talk about it.
Some of our friends have not yet
learned that is not a one man
town nor a two man town and
that it has outgrown the old idea
that a few men must control it.
There are three thousand people
here and the majority of them in-
sist on doing their own thinking.
The same people who a month
ago declared that Vinita was a dead
town unless she opened a saloon
at once are now tearing their hair
and ranting about the pa ment of
Cherokeottevenues. There is en-
tirely too Jtnuch law in tms coun-
try to suit these fellows.
WANTED TO BE CHIEF.
A Drunken Indian Holds the
Chair With a Pistol.
Capt. J. W. Ellis of the Indian
police while in the city a few days
ago told a good story illustrative
of the conditions that used to pre-
vail at Tahlcquah during the sit-
tings of the national council. On
one occasion Captain Ellis said a
drunken Indian got possession of
the executive chair in the chief's
office and held it with a big pistol
which he waved threateningly in
front of him and forbade any one
coming near him. Finally Cap-
tain Ellis and T. M. Buffington
the present chief elect each of
them some inches over six feet
in height got hold of the disturber
and yanked him down stairs and
out through the capitolyard to tbe
national jail; tbe prisoners leet
dangling in the air as he was lifted
off the ground and firmly held on
either side by the two giants.
The speedy and successful so-
lution of all the different problems
connected with the present chaotic
conditions in the Indian Territory
and -especially in the Cherokee na-
tion should engage the serious at-
tention of every Cherokee oi in-
telligence. Upon the attitude of
the Indians themselves toward
many of the grave questions to be
solved will depend the right so-
lution of them without many bitter
and painful episodes. The gov-
ernment has now taken a step far
in advance of its former policy in
dealing with the Cherokees and
tbe difficult conditions surround-
ing them. A closer relationship
should be at once established be-
tween the constituted authorities
of the nation and the agents of the
United States whose mission
amongst us is not to destroy but
to assist us in bringing order out
of chaos. There are manv indica
tions now that that relationship
will be established with the in-
coming administration.
No man need fear bis position
either in or out of office if he has
truth and right on his side. The
argument that the Cherokee laws
have not heretofore been enforced
therefore they ought not now to be
enforced is fallacious and tbe log-
ical sequence if followed out
would be anarchy. Those who
favor disregarding the laws aB to
the collection of royalties due tbe
Indians place themselves though
perhaps unwittingly in the 6ame
category as of other violators of
the laws of the country. The Dal-
tons the Cooks Jim French and
more recently the Jennings gang
undertook to disregard and over-
ride the laws generally by robbing
banks trains and private individ-
uals and they all came to grief. It
is so in some degree at least
with every man who advocates and
practices overriding the known
laws of the country in which he
lives. Sam Jones upbraided an
old fellow once for his extreme
profanity and the man answered:
"Well Mr. Jones I know it is
wrong but you see this is a new
country." So some otherwise very
good citizens say with reference to
the laws in this territory "0! this
is the Indian Territory."
In an editorial in Saturday's
daily we suggested the propriety
of leaving off the final rolls of
Cherokee citizens preparatory to
allotment tho names of all who
themselves or their ancestors
shared in tbe allotment of the old
Cherokee nation. It has been said
that this would work a great
injustice upon some of our people.
We submit that if these people
have had their their shares of
Cherokee land once that the in-
justice would he to the other Che-
rokeos to allow them to again Bhare
in the allotment. Of course the
national council erred in again ad-
mitting them but if it can be
shown by the records that they
have already had their shares of
the common property of the tribe
that they ought not to be given
another share. The fairness of
this proposition ought to commend
it to the Dawes commission and to
the Lovemmtnt.
W R. Badgett Mercantile Co
MARSTON IN THE TOILS.
Arrested on Complaint of the
Red Cross Society.
Fairfield 111. Oct. 7. The Rev-
erend J. Forrest Marston was ar-
rested last night at Owensville
Ind. by post office inspector M.
G. Price of Effingham 111. and is
now in jail in this city awaiting
the arrival of the United States
marshal. He is said to have rep-
resented himself to be an agent of
the Red Cross Society.
The Reverend Mr. Marston has
been operating for two years past
it is alleged and bis field is said
to have covered the states of Kan-
sas Missouri Arkansas Tennes-
see Alabama Georgia Illinois
and Indiana. He has been arrest-
ed a number of times but in each
instance has been released. The
post office authorities have been
after him for a year or more.
The prisoner has made a written
confession throwing himself on
the mercy of the court. The
method pursued by Marston was
one calculated to deceive almost
any one and he might have con-
tinued it many years longer had
not Miss Clara Barton of the Red
Cross Society requested the postal
authorities to arrest him at the
same time denouncing him as a
fraud.
Marston is a Baptist minister
having been ordained at Mount
Holly S. C in 1S92.
His method was to first write to
some prominent church member
in the communit3 selected for his
operations and having obtained
consent of the proper authorities
announce a free lecture. Before
closing his lecture he would an-
nounce that he was authorized to
solicit and receive subscriptions
for Lee Orphanage in Havana
Cuba which is under the care of
the Red Cross Society in which
300 sick babies are being cared for.
In support of his claim Marston
exhibited registered letter receipts
from various post offices through-
out the country showing that he
had forwarded registered letters to
Miss Barton at Havana. Each re-
ceipt was marked with the amount
purported to have been sent rang-
ing from $2 to over S350. Letters
were duly registered but no mon-
ey was inclosed so it is said and
frequently there was nothing inside
except scraps of paper.
Marston registered a letter of
this description at Owensville and
Inspector Price compelled him to
open it in the presence of witness-
es. Instead of S2.0S as called for
by the receipt the letter contain-
ed only some paper scraps.
In addition to his registry re-
ceipts and certificates of church
connection. Marston is alleged to
have carried a large number of
newspaper clippings and an
alleged telegram from Miss Clara
Barton said to have been received
at Metropolis 111. last August in
which she authorized him to con-
tinue his collections.
Marston was arrested at Galetia
about the middle of August on a
charge of obtaining money under
false pretences but succeeded in
convincing the court of his inno-
cence. When arrested Marston profess-
ed indignation but later ho broke
down and now seems much con-
cerned about the disgrace to his
wife and baby who live at Table
Rock Neb.
Hon. Thos. B. Needles is now
holding down the Dawes commis
sion office here. Tams Bixby is
at Okmulgee with the land office
force. A. S. McKennon is at Tus-
kaboma with a census force and
thero are only one or two habitues
of the departmental office hero.
There are a few details to attend
to during the absenco of these t'o
members of the commission and
they are under charge of Mr. Need-
les. Muskogee Times.
Very few people enjoy paying
taxes but a man is seldom found
who will stand right out and act
like a spoiled child becauo his
neighbors insist that he shall do
EO.
One firm in this town paid over
81100 last j-ear to the Creek na-
tion for the privilege of doing bus-
iness. Extortionate? Of course
it was but the firm as a first-class
business institution could not af-
ford to do otherwise even if this
tax is a species of robbery. The
attorneys here paid their tax even
while doing so recognizing that it
was unjust; the physicians of the
Choctaw nation were compelled to
pay the tax and thousands of dol-
lars are annually paid by the coal
operators into the Choctaw" treas-
ury a hundred to one perhaps
that is paid into tbe Cherokee
treasury by the hay men. These
big railroad and coal companies
the big merchants and others
have recognized these aB laws
made for the protection of the In-
dian; they have recognized that
these conditions existed before
they came here and that if they
went into business they either had
to pay the taxes or in some man
ner defraud the different tribes of
the revenue. We are not consid-
ering the exaction nor the extor-
tion; that has nothing to do with
the aspect of the case under con-
sideration. Smith knew it was
the law of the tribe; or if it were
not the law there has been no ex-
plicit judgment rendered against
it; he knew that other people paid
the royalty; he knew that he was
not obeying the law when he at-
tempted to ship hay out without
paying the royalty he must have
known there was some question
about it and if he be the honest
man his friends would have peo-
ple believe he would have com
plied with the requirements of
that law and then tested its legal-
ity its constitutionality after-
wards. Muskogee Times.
Isparhecher principal chief of
the Muskogee nation in his fare-
well address to the council cf his
nation says it is a well known
fact that no correct and well au-
thenticated roll of the Creek peo-
ple has ever been made. He then
adds: "in the absence of a well
autenticated census roll a number
of persons are having their names
enrolled before the Dawes com-
mission and are filing on land
when it is a well known fact that
many or them have no rights what-
ever in this nation. It is of the
utmost importance that your hon-
orable body take some action that
will secure a correct census roll of
our citizens duly approved by
council." So. McAlester Capital.
Tbe jury at Vinita has just one
of two things to do in the Smith
case: Was he taken out of the
territory and did he come back?
Smith was there to testify that he
was back. Captain Ellis and Bud
Kell were there to testily what
happened to Smith and that's all
there is to it. The other part will
come later. Muskogee Times.
Popularity may be either a tri-
bute to worth of character or it
may be an indictment strong and
unmistakable of time-serving du-
plicity and unfaithfulness to any
bod' or any cause. The man who
stands tor truth has the enmity of
those who stand for the false to
start with and the man who stands
for neither stands indicted before
the world both friend and foe
standing for nothing.
Tulsa despaired'last week of be-
ing given a court by the territory
court of appeals and now a dis-
patch from Ardmore says that Sa-
pulpa is to be the fortunate town.
Senator C. V. Rogers has re-
C7
turned from Colorado Springs to
be here in good time for council.
His wife's health has improved
m that climate and she remained.
The interior department has
done all that it started out to do
namely to collect the revenue on
hay. It will collect the other rev-
enues just as fast as it goes after
them.
The Lake Mohonk Indian con-
ference of which Henry L. Dawes
is a momber. convenes this week
at Lake Mohonk New York and
the principal topic will b tho dis-
solution of tribal relations.
NO COMMOTION.
Like the Arab Buffalo
Men Move.
Bill's
A St. Louis visitor says that one
of the very interesting sights he
witnessed was the taking down of
the Wild West outfit's tents and
equippage. As each part was used
for the last time it was speedily
taken apart packed and loaded
for tbe cars and very soon after
midnight both sections of their
train were on the way to Spring-
field 111. The Indians took down
their teepees and packed them on
their ponies and the Rough Riders
and other equestrians saddled up
and moved their outfits by the
same means. There was no com
motion and beyond the noise of
loosing tent stakes very little dis-
turbance from these branches of
the show. The quietude with
which the Indian can move was
illustrated some 25 j-ears ago at
the Cheyenne agency now Okla-
homa Territory. The Cheyennes
had been moved from the north-
west against their will and an out-
break was threatened. They were
determined to return to their old
home and the military authorities
at Ft. Reno just across the river
hardly two miles away were watch-
ing them day and night. One day
along towards noon word was
brought to the post that they were
gone and so it proved. Their
teepees those that were visible
from the fort were all left stand-
ing they having provided them-
selves with others. It was recall-
ed then that the incessant barking
of the dogs had not been heard
after ten or eloven o'clock and
that was the only sign of the de-
parture and it was overlooked
until too late.
AFTER SEVEN DAYS.
Father Convicted of Daugh-
ter's Murder.
Last May the daughter of a fam-
ily named Butler living near Si-
loam Springs was found dead in
bed beside two younger sisters.
She had been murdered with an
ax and verj soon suspicion fell
upon the father who had said he
"would rather see his child dead
than join the Mormon church.
Butler and his wife had separated
over the Mormon religion. After
being out seven days the jury yes-
terday found Butler guilty of mur-
der in the first degree.
LUMAN F. PARKER FOR CLERK.
Rumored he and Not Ross
Will
Succeed Winston.
The cat had to jump out of the
bag soon or late and this particu-
lar cat out of this particular bag
says if Judge Gill is appointed
Luman F. Parker Jr. is to suc-
ceed James A. Winston as clerk of
the district court. It has been
given out by Col. Soper and Na-
tional Committeeman Bennett
that they are using their influence
in the support of Bob Ross for
clork. Ross and his friends now
know what to expect. Muskogee j
Times.
The question as who the real
defendant is in a certain cow-steal-ing
case has been one of tho con
undrums of tho present term of
court. The parade of cowmen
before the jury ought to he suffi-
cient to convince the court and the
country of the prevailing condi-
tions in the range districts of the
Cherokee nation. There is going
to be a change that will be verv
j- -.. .
ueneiiciiu to ine common larmer
and small stock owners in this
lyuuuuj . n a iimii is proven iu
bo a thief ho cortainlv omht to
bear the consequences of his crime J
without regard to his social or bus
iness standing.
l'ho penitentiary
doors cannot much lomrer be bar
red against some of the men who
have been doing business on the
range in the Cherokee nation.
Let the whole truth be told.
"Xo thief ere ielt the barter
draw with gond opinion o the
law." I
ABOUT THE CATTLE TAX.
A Very Fair Presentation of
the Subject.
Editor Chieftain: In Mon-
day's issue of The Daily Chieftain
I read your article on the cow men
kicking on the payment of the
cattle tax dmi the nation. Now I
for one believe you are right on
this 6core. If the revenue officials
had begun their collections on the
cattle which have been imported
since the Curtis law became en-
forceable in court there would
not have been so much dissatisfac-
tion on the part of hay shippers
and merchants. Because in the
! first place thtre is due the Chero
kee nation perhaps S10 on cattle
tax to SI on all other revenues
and it would have looked better
and seemed fairer to all parties.
Furthermore the hay industry
furnishes employment to a great
number of laborers during the
season and therefore it is a good
thing for the country while mer-
chandising 1b a necessity to all.
Now if any one can show what
good the Texas cattle industry has
been to the Cherokee nation I
would like to hear from him. The
great majority of these cattle are
fattened on the range and shipped
out and therefore never make any
market for corn or other feed .and
furnish but very little employment
to labor in their keeping but on
tho other hand they eat out the
grass so the land grows' up in
weeds; and what is a still greater
detriment to the country is the
Texas fever they bring in. When
I came to Bluejacket nine years
ago Chas. Bluejacket J. Gore J.
A. Howe J. C. Williamson and
others had each a nice herd of do-
mestic cattle but they lost such a
large per cent that they became
discouraged in trying to raise do-
mestic cattle and this has been
the case all over the nation. "Now
considering these facts it looks a
little inconsistent for these cow
men to kick on the payment of
their part of the revenue as they
surely have gotten more than their
share of the public domain. I
asked one of the revenue collectors
a short time ago why he did not
proceed to collect the cattle tax
and his answer was he supposed
the government would do it at the
proper time. Now if the proper
time is after the cattle are shipped
out why not let the hay men ship
their hay before collecting. I as
a citizen of the Cherokee nation
am willing to pay my part of all
the revenue due the nation but I
would like to see the officials treat
all alike and hew to the line let
the chips fall where they may.
W. S. Maloxey.
Bluejacket I. T. Oct. 10.
The new bridge connecting the
Indian Territory and Oklahoma
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Carl Lishop of the Clarcmore Cour-'
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his witnesses evidently ready for trial.
The killing occurred la year at a
picnic en Ilogsbootcr creek in tbe
western portion of the oat ion.
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Marrs, D. M. The Indian Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 7, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 12, 1899, newspaper, October 12, 1899; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc71615/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.