The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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Successor to old Vigilant
Committee is Making Good
Watonga Okla. Mar. 24. The old-
time vigilance committee that once
freed western Oklahoma from cattle
thieves and left many a grim evidence
of their determination hanging to the
blackjack trees along the cattle trails
now has a healthy successor in this
city modeled on the same plan only
save for their object the extermina-
tion of bootleggers. Since prohibition
went into effect in Oklahoma many of
the survivors of the old cattle days
remained here and bootlegging flour-
ished like a green bay tree. Ever
since statehood officers have been un-
able to cope with the situation and a
practical reign of terror has existed.
Bootleggers have defied the officers
and gambling has run wide open like
in the days of the border.
The matter came to a head the other
day and the sentiment which has been
smouldering leaped into flames when
two alleged bootleggers in attempting
to escape from the officers ran over
the wife of a minister and came near
killing her. A monster mass meeting
was called and that very night after
an ineffectual attempt had been made
to lynch an alleged bootlegger an or-
ganization known as the "Law and
Order League" was formed. Walter
Ferguson a local merchant and a
voung man was placed at the head of j can office immediately after the news-
the organization and a committee to i paper appeared but was met by the
formulate plans of procedure was j ex-governor with a Winchester and the
formed. One of the younger men im-1 thing subsided.
patient for results whispered the j The jail is packed with alleged boot-
name "Klu Klux Klan" to the commit- j leggers and the four passenger trains
tee on organization and all plans for j which leave here daily are taking more
procedure were centered on immediate out of town. Th cleanup has been
and violent action. As a great many j very effective and all suspects are
of the bootleggers are negroes the . notified by the Law and Order League
name "Klu Klux" had a magic effect that if they find it necessary to visit
and one night during the week a "klan" . them again a rope will be brought
of 200 citizens formed at the court i along. Excitement is at a fever heat
house and marched to about 50 places and the probability is strong that un-
in town where bootlegging was sup- less the bootleggers adbicate some of
posed to be carried on. They were all ' them will be found hanging to tele-
notified to leave town but Sheriff Sam graph poles some morning.
SATURDAY ENDS
Among Important Bills Remaining i
Cruce's Hands Are the General And
Deficiency Appropriation.
Oklahoma City Mar. 24. Governor
Cruce's time for signing bills will ex-
pire Saturday night and all in his
liands at that time which are unsign-
ed will die without further action. Un-
der the provision which allows him
fifteen days after the adjournment of
the legislature to act trpon bills passed
during the last five days of the ses-
sion his time would expire on Sunday
March 26 but as the signing of bills
on Sunday would probably be illegal
Saturday is the real limit. No pro-
vision is made by the constitution for
excluding Sundays in figuring the fif-
teen days as is done in many other
provisions of a similar nature.
Among the important bills still in
Iiis hands are the general and defici-
ency appropriations bills school land
sale bill county assessor bill state
tax commissioner bill supreme court
commission bill Muskogee court rail
way hospital bill employees' experi
ence bill bill for the joint use of street
railway tracks bill giving the state
health department control over water
supply of cities bills establishing
game propagation farms reorganize
ing the national guard and giving
county superintendents authority to
name teachers for separate schools
and the joint resolution submitting a
constitutional amendment for state aid
to weak rural school districts.
The important appointments to be
made by the governor under bills al-
ready approved are the six members
of the state board of education and
" a district judge in the twentieth dis-
trict while if all bills pending are ap-
proved he will also have to appoint a
state tax commissioner and county as-
. sessors for every county in the state
although the assessors do not have to
be appointed until January 1 1912.
A number of important appointments
under old laws are still to be made
including the commissioner of health
adjutant general wardens of the peni-
tentiary and reformatory and the med-
ical dental pharmacy and embalmers'
Examining board.
Still Expect Peace Provision.
By Associated Press.
El Paso Tex. Mar. 24. Minister
Limantour's modified statement pub-
lisned here today created much satis-
faction among the insurrecto leaders.
It was regarded as a substantiation of
the hope that some form of peace pro-
vision yet will emanate from Mexico
City. Revolutionary officials think
likely Limantour and Diaz will grant
all the reforms demanded.
GOVERNOR S TIE
Sutherland and County Attorney Em-
ery picked up about 60 alleged law vio-
lators among them being many wo-
men and placed them in jail. The
local jail was soon overcrowded and
the Garfield county jail was borrowed
for the occasion. Many who escaped
arrest left town and a strange quiet
prevails.
Among the places visited were the
establishments of very prominent cit
izens. The Fisher hotel three-story
brick building and one of the best in
western Oklahoma was visited and
given the same notification. At one
place a woman faced the mob with a
revolver but was seized by the sheriff
and serious trouble was arevted. The
Watonga Republican edited by former
Governor Tom Ferguson recently ap
pointed as the republican member of
the state election board came out this
week publishing a full list of places
visited men who signed the bonds
persons suspected and created a sen-
sation. It was noised around town
that former Sheriff McArthur the offi-
cer who hung Alf Hunter who was
mentioned in one of the articles of the
newspaper as having been caught in
a negro dive during the raids of the
officers was going to "clean up" the
ex-governor. He went to the Republi-
London Gets Disquieting News.
By Associated Press.
London England Mar. 24. Private
cables received by London business
houses from representatives in the
far east today are disquieting. They
assert it is expected Russia will soon
declare war against China. The rate
at Lloyds to cov.er risks on. the out-
break of hostilities within four weeks
jumped this afternoon from five to ten
guineas per cent.
CALIFORNIA MUST
NOT BAIT JAPS
President Taft May Refuse to Invite
Foreign Nations to Participate in
San Francisco Exposition.
Washington D. C Mar. 24. Since
his return from the south President
Taft has informed members of the
Califronia delegation in congress that
he still has his eye on the California
legislature and will find a way to man-
ifest his resentment if that body fails
to keep the promises made in the fight
for the location o the Panama Canal
fair that no further anti-Japanese leg-
islation would be enacted if the fair
were sent to San Francisco. Nothwith-
standing these promises the legisla-
ture at Sacramento now is considering
several measures directed against the
Japanese and seems determined to
pass them.
The president doesn't like this ap-
parent breach of good faith and has
hinted broadly to Callfornians in the
city that he will refuse to issue invita-
tions to foreign governments to par-
ticipate in the fair if the legislation is
not halted. If official invitations to
take part in the fair are not issued
to foreign governments that will ser-
iously cripple the enterprise. The fair
would be looked on abroad as a purely
private undertaking and the usuad for-
eign government exhibits would be
missing.
It is President Taft's support of
San Francisco in the fight for the lo-
cation of the fair that brought victory
to the coast city. Had the president
kept out of the contest New Orleans
undoubtedly would have won. And the
president supported San Francisco for
the purpose of placing the CaUfornians
and the coast generally under obliga-
tions to him so that he might thereby
be better enabled to Induce them to
stop agitation and legislation against
the Japanese. In return for his sup-
port for San Francisco the president
received positive pledges that no more
anti-Japanese legislation would be en-
acted in California. But now the leg-
isalture is back at its old tricks of
baiting the Orientals thus threaten-
ing to nullify all the efforts of the ad-
ministration to convince the Japanese
of our good will.
Curryville Bank is Robbed.
By Associated Press.
Curryville Mo. Mar. 24. Safe blow-
ers set off five charges of dynamite in
the Bank of Curryville shortly after
midnight wrecked the building and
safe and escaped with four thousand
dollars.
TITLES TO
LANDS AFFECTED
Decision of State Supreme Court
Most Sweeping Several Hundred
Thousand Acres Affected.
is
Oklahoma City Mar. 24. After a
close survey of the opinion of the
state supreme court in the case of
Parkinson vs. Skelton from Okmulgee
county lawyers from the east side of
the state sav that it is the most
sweeping in its effect upon Indian
land titles in that section of Okla-
homa ever handed down by any court
since statehood. According to Nate
Gibson of Muskogee who is familiar (
with Indian land conditions the de-
cision of the court nullifies the titles
of thousands of land owners to sev-
eral hundred thousand acres of land
in former Indian Territory.
The court held in this case that re
strictions upon the alienation or in-
herited lands in the hands of the heirs
of deceased allottees of the Creek na
tion were not removed under the act
of April 21 1904 and further that
the homestead allotment of a citizen
who died intestate and without issue
as well as his surplus allotment ex-
cept with the approval of the secre-
tary of the interior were inalienable
by his heirs prior to the expiration of
five years from the date of the ap-
proval of the Creek supplemental
agreement which became effective
August 8 1902.
This decision as interpreted by east
side attorneys who hare examined it
means that any citizen of the Five
Tribes not of Indian blood who was
living at the date of the removal of
restrictions from this class of citizens
April 21 1904 had a right to sell his
surplus allotment subsequent to that
time -but that if he died prior to that
date his heirs could not convey the
land without the approval of the sec-
retary prior to August 8 1907 which
was five years from the date of the
approval of the Creek supplemental
agreement.
The principal classes of Indian citi-
zens from whom restrictions were re-
moved by the act of April 21 1904
were intermarried negroes and whites.
Between the date of the passage of
the congressional act ermoving the re-
strictions from such citizens thousands
of the original allottees died leaving
their lands to their heirs. When re-
strictions were removed upon this
class of lands Indian Verritory lawyers
took the position that the restrictions
were removed upon the lands in the
hands of heirs of such citizens as well
as in the hands of original alottees
still living.
As a result several hundred thou-
sands of acres of inherited lands were
purchased andA large majority of the
tracts have been transferred several
times since that time passing from the
hands of land men and speculators into
the possession of farmers who have
improved the land. The effect of the
decision is that such lands now vest
again in the heirs of the original allot-
tees. It is stated that in some cases
towns and city additions have been
laid out on such lands and in all such
instances the title to every lot Is up-
set. The case will doubtless go to the
supreme court of the United States
for final determination.
Another decision of the supreme
court of vital interest to the east sid
of the 6tate is that In the r-$ o'
Hooks vs. Kennard from Waonrr
county in which the court holds that
where citizens of the Creek nation
died prior to the supplemental treaty
approved August 8 1902 their allot-
Ing to the Creek law of descent and
ments descended to their heirs accord-
distribution and that at no time prior
to August 8 1907 when restrictions
were removed under the terms of the
supplemental treaty could the lands
of Creek Indians be devised by will.
It Is stated that during the years
preceding 1907 many allotments were
conveyed by will by Creek Indians to
their heirs. All these conveyances are
Invalidated by the court decision which
has the effect of unsettling the titles
to several thousand acres of Indian
lands.
General interest Is manifested on the
east side of the state in the decision
of the supreme court In the case of
W. H. Howard et al vs. W. E. Farrar
from Choctaw county. It 13 held in
this case that a deed of a full-blood
Choctaw attempting to convey title to
his land before removal of restrictions
Is void and that notes given by such
allottee to indemnify the purchaser
for failure on his part to convey the
land when he could legally do so are
aIso void and non-collectable. While
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this opinion applies specifically to
Choctaw Indians: east side attorneys
believe that it will apply equally to
citizens of other tribes who have
agreed to sell their lands before their
restrictions are removed and that it
effects a great many title in former
Indian Territory taken in this way.
It is common knowledge that certain
land buyers took deeds to lands sev-
eral years before the restrictions were
removed from the Indian and in con-
nection with the deeds entered into a
contract with the allottee that the lat-
ter would convey his land to the pur-
chaser as soon as restrictions were re-
moved. In many instances also notes
were taken from the Indian to indem
nify the purchaser for failure on the
part of the Indian to keep his agree-
ment. All such transactions are ren-
dered void by the supreme court de
cision.
Representative of Wife of Late For-
mer President Declares Report is
Entirely Unfounded.
New York Mar. 24. S. S. Hastings
executor of the estate of the late
Grover Cleveland and in charge of
Mrs. Cleveland's personal affairs is-
sued the following statement last
night:
"The paragraph appearing this after-
noon in one of the weekly society pub-
lications suggesting that there is an
engagement of marriage between Mrs.
Grover Cleveland and Professor West
of Princeton is not only without the
slightest justification but is fully re-
futed by the fact that Dean West al-
ready has a wife living and their son
now is a student in Princeton univer-
sity." The publisher of the society paper
in question called the Associated Press
last night and said that he regretted
exceedingly that an error had crept
into print and that he wished it an-
nounced that a "serious mistake had
been made."
DECLARES WAR MUST
STOP BEFORE MA1 1
San Antonio Tex. Mar. 24. With
the new demand for six or seven thou-
sand troops the issuance of an order
by General Carter making provisions
for a sudden move and a statement
by Dr. C. F. Carcristi one of the
dominant figures in the Mexican rev-
odlutionary junta that the United
States would intervene in Mexico un-
less there was a definite show of tran-
quility by May 1 the recently dimin-
ished war cloud looks large.
Dr. Carcristi felt sure enough of his
facts to embody them in a report to
Francisco I. Madero the revolutionary
leader who at the last report was
within 30 miles of the city of Chihua-
hua. Dr. Carcristi urged the Insur
recto chief to achieve a decisive vic
tory at all costs by May 1 for he wrote
that President Taft will not wait long
er than that for quiet to be restored
The courier department for the Ma
dero camp departed from here yester
day.
Dr. Carcristi who is one of the di
recting minds of the revolutionary
junta Is a lawyer a physician and a
world traveler and probably the best
trained diplomatist. The letter is not
an order for Madero is the supreme
leader but it is in the nature of a
report of the meaning of the mobiliza-
tion of American troops at Fort Sam
Houston.
Most of Dr. Carcristl's investigation
was done at Washington. Although
he has been on the grounds at El Paso
and is at present in this city. An
inkling of something unusual on foot
reached him sometime before the fam
ous Paris interview with Limantour
the Mexican minister of finance and he
proceeded at once for Washington.
In an interview yesterday he said:
"Of course a complete federal tri
umph in Chihuahua the restoration of
commerce and other business like
wise would avoid intervention but I
do know that President Taft is de
termined that order shall be restored
and that quickly by one side or the
other in Mexico with the alternative
of Intervention.
"In my report to Senor Madero I
pointed out the necessity of capturing
and holding the state of Chihuahua. If
this can be accomplished I am convinc-
ed the revolutionists will be recogniz-
ed by the United States and other gov-
ernments. "I have reason to believe that May
1 is he date set for the termination
of President Taft's patience for dis-
order on the Rio Grande. Neither side
wants Intervention and L firmly be-
lieve that the federals an drevolution-
Ists would make common cause against
an invader."
MRS. CLEVELAND
IS NOT ENCAGED
HE OMFWR OF PROMISE
Continued From Page Two.)
Bible teaches are within spiritual man.
We Christian Scientists in our daily
living are striving to do unto others
as we would that others should do
unto us. We are finding it is true
that if we seek one- another's good
that if we are obedient there does
come unto us that great Love that is
God. We find that that Love Is our
Shepherd; that it makes us to lie down
in the green pastures of fulfilled prom-
ises. We find that the same Love
leads us beside the still waters of the
river of eternal Life.
We tind tnat its coming unto us
bring messages of joy eternal and
that Love is the Shepherd that makes
us to know that we dwell In the house
of the Lord forever bringing the great
awakening which teaches us we are
not approaching the time when we
shall be perfect but that even now
in the realm of the real we are per
fect even ns our "Father which Is In
heaven is perfect."
SPECIAL DETECTIVES SENT
TO TRACE LENAPAH ROBBERS
By Associated Press.
Coffeyville Kans. Mar. 2.r. The
sheriff of Montgomery county also the
sheriff of Nowata county Oklahoma
and three special Pacific Express com
pany detectives are searching the hills
about Lenapah where the Iron Moun-
tain train was held up yesterday.
There is no trace of the bandits. The
amount of the robbery is still a mys-
tery. The express company declares
it was less than the twenty thousand
originally estimated. The fact that the
express company sent special detec-
tives is regarded as indicating their
loss was large.
Cambridge Defeats Oxford.
By Associated Press.
London Mar. 25. The annual inter-
varsity sports of Oxford and Cambridge
were held at the Queen's club today.
Cambridge won. G. E. Putnam the
Rhodes scholar at Oxford from Kan-
sas was easily the winner of the ham
mer throw beating the varsity record
with a mark of 153 feet and three
inches. R. L. Lange the Oklahoma
Rhodes scholar was beaten in the hun
dred yard dash by MacMillan of Cam
bridge by a half yard.
(First Published in the Chieftain
March 24 1911.)
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Notice Is hereby given that in pur-
suance of an order of the County
Court of the County of Craig and
State of Oklahoma made on the 21st
day of March 1911 in the matter of
the estate of Gertrude and Hannah S.
Washington minors the undersigned
as the Guardian of the persons and
estates of said minors will sell at pri-
vate sale to the highest bidder for
cash subject to confirmation by said
County Court on or after Tuesday
the 11th day of April 1911 at 10
o'clock a. m. at the office of the
County Judge of Craig County at ttie
Court House in said County of Craig
all the right title Interest and estate
of the said Gertrude Washington and
Hannah S. Washington minors and all
the right title and interest that the
said estate has by operation of law
or otherwise acquired In and to all
the certain lots pieces or parcels of
land situated lying and being in the
County of Craig and State of Okla-
homa bounded and described as fol-
lows and upon the following terms and
condition to-wit:
Lands of Gertrude Washington
Minor: S 1-2 of NE 1-4 of NW
1-4 and SW 1-4 of NW 1-4 and
NW 1-4 of SW 1-4 of Section Sev-
enteen (17) and NE 1-4 of NE
1-4 of SE 1-4 of Section Eighteen
(18) Township Twenty-five (25)
North and Range Nineteen (19)
East containing 110 acres In
Craig County Oklahoma.
Lands of Hannah S. Washington
Minor: NW 1-4 of NE 1-4 of NW
1-4 of Section Seventeen (17)
Township Twenty-five (25) North
and Range Nineteen (19) East
containing 10 acres in Craig
County Oklahoma.
All bids must be in writing and must
be accompanied by certified check for
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10 per cent of the amount bid. Bids
may be filed with the County Judge
of Craig County or with the attorney
for Guardian. Any and all bids may
be rejected if fn the Judgment of the
Court or Guardian the amount bid Is
insufficient.
Dated the 21st day of March 1911.
CYRUS WASHINGTON
Guardian.
ALBERT B. MARKS
Attorney for Guardian.
Vinita Oklahoma. 41-3
(First Published in the Chieftain
March 17 1911.)
NOTfCE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Notice is hereby given that In pur
suance or an order or the county
Court of Craig County Oklahoma
made on the 13th day of March 1911
in the matter of the estate of Mamie
L. N. Allen a minor the undersigned
as guardian of the estate of said minor
will sell at private sale to the highest
bidder for cash subject to confirma-
tion by said County Court on Monday
the 3rd day of April. 1911 at 1:30
o'clock p. m. of said day or at any
time thereafter within the statutory
period for receiving bids all the right
title interest and estate of the said
Mamie L. N. Allen a minor acquired
in whatsoever manner in and to the
following described real estate situat-
ed In Craig County Oklahoma and
more accurately described as follows
to-wit:
The East Half of the North East
Quarter of Section 9 Township 24
North Range 21 East being in all
80 acres more or less.
Bids must be in writing and may be
left at the office of the Judge of the
County Court accompanied by a cer-
tified check for one-third of the amount
of the bid.
Dated this 13th day of March 1911.
HIRAM R. A Lit EN
Guardian.
By ADDIS A. BROWN
40-2 His Attorney.
(First Published in the Chieftain
March 17 1911.)
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Notice Is hereby given that pursu-
ance of an order of the County Court
of Cherokee County Oklahoma made
on the 20th day of February 1911 in
the matter of the estate of Edwin
Woodard a minor the undersigned as
guardian of the estate of said minor
will sell at private sale to the highest
bidder for cash subject to confirma-
tion by said County Court on Monday
the 3rd day of April 1911 at 1:30
o'clock p. m. of said day or at any
time thereafter within the statutory
period for receiving bids at the County
Court room in Cherokee County Okla-
homa all the right title Interest and
estate or tne said mawin wooward a
minor acquired in whatsoever man-
ner in and to the following described
real estate Bituated In Craig County
Oklahoma and more accurately de-
scribed as follows to-wit:
The South Half of the South West
Quarter of the South West Quar-
ter of Section 9 and the East Half
of the South East Quarter of the
South East Quarter of Section 8
all in Township 25 North Range
20 East.
Bids must be in writing and may be
left at the office of the Judge of the
County Court accompanied by a cer-
tified check for one-third of the amount
of the bid.
Dated this ICth day of March 1911.
GEORGE WOODARD
40-2 Guardian.
By PARKER. RIDER & BROWN and
BRUCE L. KEENAN Ills Attorneys.
(First Published in the Chieftain
March 17 1911.)
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of an order of the County Court
of Cherokee County Oklahoma made
on the 20th day of February 1911 in
the matter of the estate of Mary
Woodard a minor the undersigned as
guardian of the estate of said minor
will sell at private sale to the highest
bidder for cash subject to confirma-
tion by said County Court 611 Mon-
day the 3rd day of April 1911 at 1:30
o'clock p. m. of said day or at any
time thereafter within the statutory
period for receiving bids at the County
Court room in Cherokee County Okla-
homa all the right title interest and
estate of the Baid Mary Woodard a
minor acquired In whatsoever man-
ner in and to the following describ-
ed real estate situated in Craig Coun-
ty Oklahoma and more accurately de-
scribed as follows to-wit:
The East Half of the West Half
of the North East Quarter of Sec
tion 17 Township 25 North Range
20 East.-
Bids must be in writing and may be
left at the office of the Judge of the
County Court accompanied by a cer-
tified check for one-third of Ihe amount
of the bid. "
Dated this 16th day of March 1911.
GEORGE WOODARD
40-2 Guardian.
By PARKER RIDER & BROWN and
BRUCE L. KEENAN His Attorneys.
AND SELL
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