The Durant Weekly News (Durant, Indian Terr.), Vol. 12, No. 2, Ed. 1, Friday, January 12, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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Fight on Omnibus
Grows Alarming
Washington Jan. 8 Astrong
movement to defeat the statehood
bill when itaomos upin tho house
next week dovoiopod Saturday.
Tho loador is Representative
Baboook of Wisconsin who
claims fifty republicans and every
democrat will voto against tho
bill.
Their plan is to send tho bill
back to the committee on territo-
ries and foroe the committee to
report a bill admitting Oklahoma
and Indian Torritory togothor
disregarding New Mexico and
Arizona.
Spoakor Cannon is endeavoring
to force tho insurgents into line
and voto tho omnibus bill.
Chairman Hamilton of the
conmi'toe claims the opposition
will not have enough votes and
that there will be a safe majority
for tho bill.
Congressman Murphy arranged
with the committee on territories
for a hoaring Tuesday. He will
submit an argument in support of
the Sequoyah bill.
It now looks as though tho
statehood bill would oome before
the house next Wednesday.
Washington Jan. 8. After
contemplating a plan to displace
tho Philippine tariff bill with tho
statehood measure in tho house
this week the leaders arrived at
the conclusion just before Satur-
day that the present order of
business should not be disturbed
and the list of speeohes which is
to occupy at least the first half of
the week on the revenue measure
will be unre9trioted. Mr. Payne
ADDS 40 ACRES
TO THE CITY
.Hardin Smith Pays $8000
Tract of Land.
For a
Realizing that Durant is des-
tined to make a Greater Durant
10000 population January 1st
1007 is the mark C. H. Hardin
Smith cashier and stockholder in
the Farmors National Bank of
this city haa closed a deal where-
by he has becomo owner of forty
acres of land adjoining tne oity
on the northwest at the north
end of from Ninth to Thirteenth
avenues a tract of land high
dry and healthy. Mr. Smith paid
the handsome sum of $200 an
aore or $8000 for this valuable
section of dirt Dr. Jaa. L. Shu-
ler T. R. Landers E. F. RineB
and A C. Uisner transferring to
him tho deed.
While Mr. Smith has not as yet
determined yet it is pretty cer-
tain he will cut tho tract up into
hlnnkH and lots and place it on
the market as an addition to the
city. It io also talked that he
will build for himself and wife an
elegant home in the new addition.
Somo time last spring a com-
pany of Durant men purohased
ninety acres of land just west of
the traot purchased by Mr. Smith
at the north end of Fifteenth
and Sixteenth avenues. This
too will be out up into blooks and
lots and placed on the market in
the very early spring.
Nowcone3 the announcement
that quite a number of our citi-
zens will buv five-aore blookB in
these two additions and will
build thereon modern homes. As
both of these additions are el -vatod
and overlook the oity it
makes the sites most desirable
fnr hoalthier. fresher freer
homes. And as the town is grad-
ually but surely leaning to the
west and northwest property is
surejt increase in value in those
in charge of tho bill estimates that
the discussion on this Bubjeot
noxt week will occupy tho first
three or four days.
After the Philipino bill has
been disposed of the statehood
bill which 'he committee on ter-
ritories has still in preparation
will bo brought forward imme-
diately and that question acted
upon and discussed without in-
terruption. No appropriation measures will
be takon up until the statehood
bill has ho on disposed of but tho
regular supply measures are ex-
peoted to come with regularity
thereafter.
Representative John Sharp
Williams the minority leader
said today that tho attitude of tho
democrats toward the four terri
tories seeking statehood had not
changed in the least since the
opening of the present congress.
'The demooiats will not support
any measure whioh attempts to
choko the joint statehood of Now
Mew Mex oo and Arizona down
their throats" said Mr Williams
'and we have alot of republicans
with us on that position. If we
democrats can have the oppor-
tunity to vote on Oklahoma and
Indian Territory separately we
shall voto for their admission
either as two or as one state.
Furthermore wo shall vote for
tho admission of New Mexioo and
Arizona as separate states but
any attempt to make us support
their admission as one state will
fail."
sections.
One thing is certain: Durant
is going to grow this year as she
has never grown before. It doe
not take a field-glass to seo this.
Fronvall over the United States
people will oome (o the Indian
Teiritory seeking homes and
places to invest their money.
As Durant is blessed with as
fine farming fruit and grazing
lands as there ia anywhere and
has "the best people on earth"
we may as well preparo for com
pany for tuoy are sure coming
this way.
Ton thousand January
let 1900 that's the mark and
we'll reach it and then some.
THE PEOPLE OF KEIRSEY
What
the People Are
Where They Are
Saying
Going.
and
Keiraey I. T. Jan. 9 We are
glad to note that Rube Boall is
able to be up after a severe spell
of pneumonia.
Georgo liaulbrook of Preston
Texas has moved into his houee
whioh ho built in the fall.
Misses Eunioe Yarbrough and
Maud Keirsey spent the holidays
at home returning to Bloomfield
Monday. i
We were glad to have Will
Brown of Durant in our burg
Sunday.
I .mil a 'NTnivlm nnnf Ppaafrtn i.am A
over and purchased somo lots and
is having a house built but hud
tho misfortune to lose a fine horse
with blind staggera bofore he got
his lumb&r hauled.
The social given Saturday even-
ing by the MiBses Buckley was
very mum enjoyea oy a large
crowd.
Gorge Haulbrook is building a
residence for hi9 widowed daugh-
ter. MoCule Suffrod of Sherman is
on a visit to his brother hero.
Miss Bertha Fuller is
home
from Norman Ok. to spend a few
weeks with h-r mother Mrs. I.
F. Fuller.
ELDREDGE WAS
A HOT NUMBER
Noted Character Impersonator
livers tho Goods in Huge
Packages.
Do-
From Tuesday's Dally.
Mr. Gilbert A Eldredgc tho
noted oharaoter impersonator is
the best ono-mun show to pass
this way. He's a "nun " He's
a hot number. He's worth tho
prico. Ho gave a largo audicnoo
a trout at tho court house last
night 'thoy will not soon forgot.
Ho gavo the people a deep pain
in their sides all due to laughter.
He oau8od people to smile who
perhaps never smiled bofore. It
was the best pill for tho blues wo
havo ever swallowed.
Mr. Eldrodgo favored tho aud-
ionoe with an extremely varied
and interesting ropertoiro; nearly
all the skotahes and impersona-
tions wore given in costume and
his rapidity and dexterity in
ohanging not only his costume
but his entile appearance was
not the least remarkable feature
of the entertainment. And not
only his 6utward appearance but
his voioo changes to suit almost
any part from old woman to small
boy or mature man.
Tho solootions he gives for his
humorous work are of a high or-
der never trashy or silly
or leaving a bady taste behind
but full of good wholesome fun.
In his serious representations he
chooses rather the classics of the
language such as "TheMerohant
of Venice" Enoch Arden" and
"Ebon Holden."
He seemed to have a native
talent for mimicry and character-
ization and is in his element
when "drossod up" to represent
some oharaoter.
Again let's doff our hats to the
Fortnighly Club under whoso1
auspices Mr. Eldrodge appeared
here. Such entertainments are
treats we seldom are given op-
portunity to witness.
DEEDS TO INDIAN LANDS.
Peculiar Condition Exists in Choc
taw-Chickasaw Nations.
Apeouliar condition exists in
the Chootaw-Chiokasaw Nations
with regard to tho signatures of
tho governors bocauao the gov-
ernors of each nation have to
Bign all deeds. Gov.' MoCurtain
signs them with the belief that he
is to deliver them to the allottee
himself and Gov. Johnson signs
them believing that thev are to
be delivered by the commission
and that MoCurtain is to have
nothing to do with them.
There is a provision in the Cur
tis bill that may balk both chiefs
bb it provides that when the deeds
are recorded at the commission
the title passes and that they aro
to be delivered by the covern-
mont.
Since the trouble arose the
government has not entrusted the
deeds to either ohiof but thoy
are first sent to MoCurtain who
signB them then returned to the
commission and forwarded to
Johnston and returned again.
TOOK A SADDLE BLANKET
Will
Bishop Again' Convicted and
Languishes in Jail.
Saturday Chief of Police Bled-
soe arrested Will Bishop upon
tho ohargo of stealing a horse
blanket from Dyer's wagon yard
a week or moro ago. He wus
given trial bofore a jury in the
polioo court and upon convio-
tion was fined $17.05. Not hav-
ing the neoessary coin ho was
pieced in jail.
Young Bishop was up onoe be-
fore charged with the theft of
money and was oonvioted.
v
Mrs. Lelia Colbert is in the oity
the guest of relatives.
Department of tho lntorior Com-
missioner to the Five Civil-
ized 'TriboB.
Notico of Cancellation of names
of .Persons who dioil puorto
Soptombor 25 1002 from tho
approved rolls of Chootaw and
Chiokasaw citizens and frood-
mon:
Whereas the persons herein-
after named havo been enrollod
bv tho commission to the Five
oivililizod Tribos as citizens and
froedmon of the Chootaw )r
Chiikasaw nation and their on-
rollmont as suoh approved by tho
Seorotary of tho Interior and
Whereas Information has
boon scoured in affidavit form
evidencing the donth of said per-
sons prior to September 25 1002
(32 Stat. 641) and
Whereas Tho aot of congress
approved July 1 1002 (32 Stat.
641) provides:
"That no allotment of land or
othor tribal property shall be
made to any person or to tho
heirs of uny person whose namo
is on Baid rolls and who died
prior to the date of the final rati-
fication of this agreement; thoro-
foio notice is hereby given to the
heir's of the persons hereinafter
namid tho administrators of
their estates or any other por-
spus who may have .uny interest
whatsoever in tho estates of said
decedents that tho) Commis-
sioner to the five oivilizod tribos
will at the oxp ration of sixty
days from the date hereof reo-
ommend to the Honorable Sec-
retary of the Interior the can-
cellation of the enrollment of
said persons as citizens and
froodmen of the Choctaw and
Chiokasaw nations unless con-
clusive evidence is presonted'to
the effect that said persons wore
living on September 25 1902.
Age is given as of the ear
1?99 the time when most of the
applications for enrollment wore
made:
Chootaw Citizens.
Andrew Jaokson 60; ciiowart
Mitchell 62: Eliza Frazier 80;
Sarah Folsom 46; Mary Durant
57; Gibson Fullomme 45; Eph-
raira Nioholas 15; Dennis Ho-
bert 14; Louie Crowder 75.
x Chiokasaw Citizens".
Lina Kemp 61; Lela Rose-
Camellia Inez Patton born No
vombor 20 1899; Janie Eatolle
Colbert born in 1900.
Chiokasaw Freodmen.
Ida Williams 23.
As evidence of tho fa'ct that
any of the persons hereinbefore
named were living on September
25 1902 the Commissioner to the
five oivilizod tribes will require
the personal testimony of at least
two reliable witnesses who havo
actual personal knowledge of
suoh fact and who are in no man
nor interested in the estate of the
decedent.
TAMS BIXBY
Commissioner to the Five Civil-
ized Tribes.
Muskogee Indian Territory De- j
cember 12 1005. 52 4
PULLING FOR THE COURT
Sam
Kyle Making Strong Effort in
Behalf of Durant.
Sam H. Kyle a leading mem-
ber of tho Durant barf president
of the Durant Democratic Club
and a staunoh friend of the city
is making a strong pull for the
location of a federal oourt build-
ing in Durant when statehood
oomos. Almost unaided he ia
going about among' thu property
owners and the othor progressive
element soliciting the neoessary
funds with whioh to push the
matter in congress. That Mr.
Kyle is succeeding in his work is
attosted by the announcement
mat tne requirou sum or money
has been subscribed or nearly
so. Here's hoping we'll get the
oourt and that Mr. Kyle will be
the first democratic judge.
Jaok Gordon of Paris Texas
and Col. J. W. Burgoyne of Tus-
kahoma I. T havo gone to
Washington to work in the inter-
est of the Gordon game reserve
io bo ostabl'shed in tho .Chootaw
notion and to contain 100000
acres of mountainous land
The Presbyterian ohuroh at
their Sunday niorning aervioes
voted to oall a pastor at onoe
The mau has not been called as
yet but will be at an early outo.
Fifty Ymmrmthe Standard
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BAKING
P0WDE
A Gream of Tsuriar Powder
Made Fr&vv (Straptym
No Aium
fci$ii&irii&ii&ii&iif rib riRiiii3ieji&ii&iigi
I Durant Grocery) Co.
jjr. Wholesale
. Staple and Fancy
:
Largest Stock of Groceries
IN DURANT.
There is no better flour .than the celebrated
"Ben Huir" and "Red Rover" brands of
whioh we have jusc n&ooived a ourload. If
you want the good flour this is it. Everything
fresh in groceries staple and finoy.
We have in transit x
Bags that we can sull you ohonrer than any
house in town. Then we will buy your spuds
and pay the hi ghest market prioe.
We W.ant to Bwiy Your Hay Oats
Potatoes in fact anything you
have to sell in the Produce
-and Poultry line.
See us before you seiJl. See us before you
buy. We oun' save yoi money. We especi-
ally Boliait the tradefof Union farmers.
J. A. Simmons....
North Side.SEast Main Stroot
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TOTAL CAPITAL
STOCK TAXABLE
Bank
Concerns Will Have to
Tax on It All.
Pay
Vinita I. T. Jan. 10t Judge
Gill has rendered a deoision that
Is of interest to every corpora-
tion doing business in Indian
Territoiy. The board of equali-
zation levied a tax upon the total
capitalization of the Inter
national Bank and Trust Com-
pany of Vinita $100000. The
hank refused to pay on but $50-
000 whioh it olaimed was all of
the capital Btock whioh had beon
paid in. The oourt held that the
oity council had levied a tax
which had been passed upon by a
board of equilization whioh was
legally oieatod and that the bank
wou'd have to pay tho tax on tho
full amount of the capital stook
The amount of the tax was $1000
It is the first time this. point huB
beon passed upon in the territory.
Marshal Pritohard and depu-
ties loft South MoAU'Ster last
night with "Ten Spotr" the prison
car which contained twenty-
seven prisoners among wuo u
was Frank Lamar. the murderer
of Sheriff Russellwho goes up for
eighteen years. Tho wimio bunch
are billed for tho Fort. Leaven-
worth prison.
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SCHOOLS GOING
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Congressman Curtis Has a Bill for
Schools of liMfiwf Territory.
Washington Jar i.'4Q. Repre
sentative Curtis o I 'Kanaao will i
today introduce a vbHl which he
thinks will meej; a i condition that
will Boon ari-e and need a remedy
in Indian Territory. With the
abolishment of ttia tribal govern
ments March 4nfcxtj under the
law the sohooli' of! the territory i
will bo left pratfth-ally without
moans of support! Mr. Curtis'
bill is designed toauthorize oities
and towns in 'Indian Territory
having an assosBed'viiluation f
8250000 or more tissue and sell
bonds for tho purpaj-jo of raising
revenue for the construction of
sohool buildings to itnNxtent not
to exceed 4 per co'nTSf the total
valuation on all property liBted
for taxation in the oity or town
and to Bell the bonds fnr not less
than par and insiriesof not over
$1000 eaohat an interest rato
of not to exceed 0 per oent.
To provide for the payment of.
those bonds a tax shall bo paid
upon all taxable property in the
city or town issuing bonds not to
exceed 5 mills on tho dollar for
Interest payment and creating a
t sinking fund for the retirement
of the bonds. Mot more than one
series is to be made payable and
beoome due in any one year.
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Paullin, Lewis. The Durant Weekly News (Durant, Indian Terr.), Vol. 12, No. 2, Ed. 1, Friday, January 12, 1906, newspaper, January 12, 1906; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc82533/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.