The Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 120, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 24, 1904 Page: 1 of 4
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VINITA INDIAN TEIlllITOItY WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21 1901.
PRICE 10 CENTS PER WEEK
VOL. VI NO. 120
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TAXATION
Matter in Which Al! Towns
Are Interested.
MANY COMPLICATIONS.
Inequalities Are Frequent
Question of Taxing Lots
Under Present Condi-
tions a Decidedly
Mixed One.
Tlie national hanks of Tulsa de-
cline to permit without protest their
capital stock and surplus to be as-
sessed at par. They are will iujjf to pay
on a basis of 05 per cent and insist
that even this rate is higher than the
lots are assessed and produce tigu res
to bear out the statement.
Seldom If ever is personal property
assessi ( 1 at what it would bring on the
market at. public auction if sold for
taxes which .should be the rule. This
tax assessment business has always
been a source of discoid and will lie
as long as human kind prefer making
false returns (if their possessions to
paying taxes on them.
While there may U no good reason
for assessing kink capital at. less than
par it is frequently dune in many of
the Mates and is simply an oils'-t to
assessing the funnel's i I'M horse at '
and a merchant '.s bran new stock oi'
plods at ii per cot. I.
In ibis connect ion i! might be we!!
to look into iiiit;i's;:-srsii:e!it. Here
' t ofore otily personal proper! v has U-eii
subject to laxat ion and. following the
old Cherokee law hoi.-vs and other
improvements wni! in as personal
property lint this ear Ihebiai.ks
show no spaee for list hie; Iioum s it is
the lot and i he improvetneiits are in-
" clud-l.
I 'art of the lots ill this city l.ae
been paid f'a' ill full and the deeds
i-sued. In some cases the payments
have all U.-eii made but the deed net
S-aied while in many cases only first
payments hau- Ucn made. Coder
these va:ied circumstances and coiidi-
t iolis It appears inexpedient to tax t he
lots for many reus is. It would be
unfair to tax the .1. an ho bad paid
in full and p't his deed and not tax
the man who bad not perfected bis
t itle. If a lot not fully paid out was
taxed if may readily lj seen that we
might lx taxing the Cherokee Nation
uhi'-h was never contemplaUil. Tiiis
fur the reason thai if the person to
whom the lot s as appraised and sold
failed to make final payment and per-
fect t it le the lot jttwiod become the
properly of t he nat ion. No one .-Se
would bae any equity in ii. unfair as
I his nriy o'.-in.
'i'h.l' th-ri will be some l.ipses hard-
ly .el ..:; s (f a doi.M as a few lots
s.: ;t t he P-ver:m i.i auct ion last
i'.tll passe 1 at fg!irs I h'h will not
warrant making ad-Jit tot ial pay.-.ietits.
prevailing pr'rc-s considered.
Thi-n ioo. and ceuneetcd with this
comes 1 he problem of collecting the
t ax on a vacant lot from a non-resident.
If he de-line i to pay. the city
( ill 1 have not hiiig to s. II and if It
did sell it could not give a title that
t be Indian agent would recognize in
fill ure .settlements.
All tlcse conditions find a nuiiiler
of others which the lawyers suggest
tend to complicate t he sit uat ion with
the result that several roperty own-
ers I.ae already declined to list their
lots.
Whatever rule Is adopted must le
uniform and should mete out equal
justice to all and the sooner t he ques-
tion is settled the lietter.
A Thousand Dollar Thrown Away
Mr. . V. baker of Plainvicw
Neb. writes: "My wife bad lung
trouble for over fifteen years. We
tried a iiiiiiiIkt of doctors and sient
over a thousand dollars without any
relief. She was very low and I lost
all hope when a friend suggested t ry-
ing Foley's Honey and Tar. which I
did: and t batiks U to this great rem-
edy it saved her life. She is stronger
and enjoys lietter health than she has
ever known in ten years. We shall
never be without Foley's Honey and
Tar and would ask those afflicted to
try it. For sale at 1'eoples drug store.
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Supreme Court Sustains Con-
tention of Cherokoes.
ALLOTMENT MAY BEGIN
Oniy the "Registered" Are En-
titled to 160 Acres of the
Cherokee Domain
together with Im
provements.
Special to Chieftain
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Washington Feb.:;:! (5:10 p.m.
The supreme court today tie-
cidedthat registered Delaware J
acquired only right of occupancy
J during life to land in theChero-
kee nation with the right upon J
allotment to not less than KiO
X acres and that the children and
de-scendants of such Delaware J
take only tlie rightsof othercit-
i i.ens of t lie Cherokee nat ion.
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LETTKIt KC.OM ATTnllNKV lll TCIIINOS.
Muskogee I. T. Feb. 21. IMi.
Mr. 1. M. Maiu-.s
Kditor Daily Chieftain. Vinita.
Dear Sir: I presume of course. 1 ha!
you heard yesterday of the decision in
the Delaware case but as several diff-
erent telegrams have been received
all of a different tenor I thought that
perhaps you would like to know the
exact decision. o!'aras the Cheio-ke.-s
are concerned the ! eirami of the
court of claims is allinie'-l in toto by
t le .supreme court : t hat is. the court
deided t hat ti.' language in the agree-
ment as to the K'tacivs conveyed only
a life estate to each Delaware and
that when the Delaware died his in-
terest went to the tribe just as the
estate of the Cherokee by blood. And.
also that in the allotment to the liv-
ing registered Delawares. each will
get bio acres and the living destvnd-
auts of registered Delawares st and up-
t u t be .same foot iug as Cberokees by
hiiHxl. It is a glorious complete vic-
tory. Yours truly
WSI. T. IlLTl lllNos.
wares we think that the bill was
broad enough in its allegations and
prayer for relief to require a dellnito
set I lenient of the rights in the con-
troversy. Instead of dismissing tlie
bill we think a decree should have
been entered finding the registered
Delawares entitled to share equally
w i;h the Cherokee citizens of Chero-
kee blood in the allotment of lauds in
the Cherokee country with the con-
dit ion that if there is not enough land
to give to each eit i.en of tlie nation
KID acres then the registered Dela-
wares shall be given that quantity to-
gether with their improvements. Jn
all other respects the Cherokee citi-
zens whet her of 1 ela ware or Cherokee
blood should be given equal rights in
the lands and funds of the Cherokee
nation. The decree dismissing the
bill is so modified as to conform to the
terms just stated and so modified is
affirmed."
The decision finally disposes of the
controversy between the Delaware
and Cherokee Indians over a matter
of b"7ioo acres of land in the Chero-
kee Nation. Tlie direct question in-
volved was whether tlie Delawares
exercised merely the right of occu-
pancy of t he lands or whether they
had acquired permanent rights in the
same. This is decided in the interest
of the first proposition namely that
the Delawares acquired no permanent
rights with the exception that when
the allotment takes place each Dela-
ware and Cherokee shall receive an
equal portion of the lands but in the
event that there is not sutlicient land
to supply each Delaware wit h an equal
port ion then the registered Delawares
only shall receive biO acres. It is es-
timated in round numbers that there
are about. l2oo Delawares in all of
whom only between 2oo and 300 are
registered.
The representative of the Delaware
Indians after the decision said that
the supreme court would In? asked to
issue a supplemental decree delining
what is meant by "registered Dela-
wares." whether those who were origi-
nally registered or those on the regis-
ter who are now living.
The suit was brought in the. United
States court of claims as a tribe by the
Delawares residing in the Cherokee
country and individually joined in by
certain ot hers suing for the surviving
registered Delawares. their children
devendants and personal representa-
tives against the Cherokee Nation
for t he purpose of determining tlie
right of the Delawares "in and to the
lands and funds of said nation under
the contract and agreement with the
Cherokee Nation dated April". ls'iT."'
The court of claims dismissed the
bill. The supreme court affirms this
decision but modifies it.
WAsntM.ToN 1'liKsS l!Kl'Oi:r. !
In affirming the decision of the)
Couri of claims in the case of the)
Delaware Indians against the Chero-)
kee nation. Justice Day who deliver-
ed the opinion of the supreme court
reviewed at. considerable length the
content ions of lioth sides to the suit
and the decision of the lower court
and concludes his decision in the fol-
lowing words in which the finding of
I he court is summarized:
"The court ef claims rendered a de-
cree dismissing the bill. Whilst
agreeing w il h t he conclusions in Chat
court ;.s to t rights of the Dela-
A NigUt Alarm.
Worse than an alarm of tire at night
is the brassy cough of croup which
sounds like the children's death knell
atid it means death unless something
is done quickly. Foley's Honey and
Tar never fails to give instant relief
and quickly cures t he worst forms of
croup. Mrs. V. L. Cordier of Man-
nington Ky. writes: "My t line year
old girl had a severe case of croup: the
doctor said she could not live. I got.
a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar the
first dose gae quick relief and saved
le-r life." r.cfiise substitutes. For sale
at i'eopli s drug si re. dw
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pnlleitr lhisuh mv I'.mb with frequent henei. 1ms
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V.'me f C:.ni!!. . -
Tben Hiv t-i'iKrat health tmprovea. (be pami ifr;(.ul It -oi r i hi
after lt iwti 1 waawrll. I am now tie hai nioOi'-r .f a ley i.bic n
mintlK old aii'1 n huhand join me in nanii li-artfen. t"uti w veu
f r ve-.ir ;.a i.a'd medirine. . .
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We have decided to quit handling the above named
articles. Now is the housekeepers' oppor-
tunity to buy her spring supply.
One 9x12 Yelvet Ruii regu
lar price $25 at
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Six 9x12 Tapestry Kugsreg-
ular price 16.50 at
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$4.50 Portiers choice of patterns $348
25c Japanese Hatting; 20c
30c Japanese Hatting 25c
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Wine of Cardui is tlie tno.t awetwfnt metistrual rcpulator. IV
reetib-tinj nietitruati.n. Wine of Cardni Iwtisiie lrflaa.cmtum
fnm the eutin feiaali erpariisin and the atTwiclhenod hgniuei.ts
brine the oTcafii ba k to their prop r place. Tliis is hat me of
Cardni did I f Mn. Nir-llinffer. It l.ani.di.-.l t!. rai-kine ra"13 "nt
burning iiilkinuu.-ition and bniiL'ht her nli.f. Sho was r. st.-ri to
health and Ftrei.trtli and gives Wine of Cardui the credit .f makinii
her ahlo t ) le.me a Imppr mother. This i:islieine e:iiipf a woman
for every dutvt f W ifeh.H.l" and motherhood. There are many Mil-
feritiL' wuni. n ulio think that health can never 1 otlieirs liau they
cann. t P.xur'; the oervieen of a preat Fpviiilist but we at.t to ay
riffht h'-re that while Mrs. Ninilinfer live in rhilelelphia a gn-at
ine.lieal center she depended on Wine of Cardui fur a cure ami t he
wa cnml. ibis same medicine i wuuiii juur n-aeu.
All dracgitJi 0.-11 $1.00 bottles w me of t ardui.
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ing Uiard in three colors cut any size
desired. Orders solicited.
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Pnoumonto fellow La Grippe
but never follows the ue of
Honey
and Tar
Itttops the Cough and beals the uug.
Prevents Pneumonia and Consumption.
Ma. Q. Vacher of 151 Osgood St. Chicago
writes: "Mr wife had la irripp and it left hat
with a very bad rough on her luncs whioa
t OLBI'I Hon It AMD Til eorad rompUtalr."
K-ir-'c's Drup 5fore. dw
CHARLES W. DAY I). I. S.
DKNT1ST
Gold crown and bridge work a special-
ty. Otlice over First National Hank
d Vinita I. T.
E.A. STUBBLEFIELD.D.M.D.
Otlice opposite postotliee in Gray-IIal-d
fell bldg Vinita
Real Estate.
You will do well to see Campbell-
Marrs to sell your Vinita property to
buy vacant or improved property to
rent your property rent you a boine.
or to help you on any kind of a real
estate trade. Have for sale or trade
for other property four claims in Ok-
lahoma and a plantat ion in Mississippi.
yyi. l. r.Ac.r.Y
Physician & Sit.geon
f!l!ec in new Katcliff bldg. Phone 101
d Vinita I. T.
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Physician and burgeon
Office upstairs over Cherokee National
Hank. Phone VJ
d Vinita Ind. Ter.
II. WIIJSOX.
OSTEOPATH.
(itlice at residence: ConsrrcL'at ional
Parsonage Vinita
Telephone Xuniher
AVe cure KlRumaf ism. Constipation
Paralysis. Malaria. I'iahetes. diseases
of the Eye Luntrs. Heart. Stomach.
Kidneys etc. I'iseasesof women: dis-
eases of the PhKxl and Nervous ss-
tem Itislecations etc. dw
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Marrs, D. M. The Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 120, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 24, 1904, newspaper, February 24, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc774008/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.