The McLoud Standard. (McLoud, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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McLOUD STANDARD.
KELLER 4 BITLER.
McLOUD, - • OKLAHOMA.
NEW STATE NEWS
The grand jury for the federal cou.it
at South McAlester has returned sit
Indictments for murder.
The Commercial National bank of
Muskogee is the only government de-
pository in Indian Territory.
The Teachers' association of the
Creek nation will meet at Okmulgee
on Thursday, November 24, and the
meeting is expected to have a fu'l
attendance.
Shipments of coal from McAlester,
Lehigh and Coalgate are now running
about 200 ears a day. Formerly the
average was about half that amount.
The four-year-old son of Philip j
Roe of Pond Creek was burned to j
death while playing with matches j
and attemtping to light a bonfire.
Captain Peter Maytubby, residing
near Tishomingo, has begun to bore
for gas and oil on his allotment, near
Maytubba Springs.
The city council of llartshorne has j
granted a franchise to the Indian Ter-
ritory Traction company to build its j
line through the business portion of j
the town. The line will be oomplet- :
ed and ready for business by January
1st
Deputy Sheriff Sigman of Co-
manche county has returned from
Whitesboro, Texas, with Lester Me- j
Call, wanted in that place upon the j
charge of bigamy.
All the vacant lots at Madill have
been sold. The lots found ready sale
nt prices above the appraised value, j
The highest price paid for residence
lots in the Chickasaw nation was at
this sale, when three small lots sold i
for *G02' _
AH persons under sentence to the I
penitentiary from Indian Territory
will, hereafter, according to instruc-
tions from the attorney general, be j
sent to Atlanta, Ga., instead of to 1
Leavenworth, Kas.
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J. Hamp Williams of Kingston has
been appointed mining trustee for the
Chickasaw' nation, to succeed Charles
Carter, whose term has expired. Tho
duty of the trustee is to look after
the royalties on coal and minerals. !
and see that the nation gets its just
dues.
John Meisberger, the thirteen-year-
old boy who was caught robbing post-
office boxes at Oklahoma City, has
been sent to the reform school at
Washington. The lad had been in
jail many times for petty thefts, but
when he infringed on the United
States ho was promptly taken in fot
good.
Wapanucka has organized Its first
Fchool this year, and there are now
230 pupils enrolled. The outlook is
very encouraging, and arrangements
are being made for voting bonds the
proceeds of which are to be used for
the erection of a school building.
At Oklahoma City last week Dan
ratch lowered tho world's paring rec-
ord on a half mile track to 2:03 fiat.
The previous record was 2:03*4,
held by himself. About two weeks
ago he lowered his own record and
the world's record on a mile track
from 1:5G*4 to 1:56. Ilad It not been
for a soft place on the Oklahoma City
track, which caused the speed won-
der to break, he would have made the ]
double lap in nearly the two minute
mark.
The battalion of the Twenty-fifth
Infantry, stationed at Fort Reno, has
received orders to pack up for im-
mediate transportation to the Phillip-
piues for service.
Judge Townsend has appointed Ely
Morris United States constable for
the southern district of the Indian
Territory.
The bankers of Oklahoma met in
El Reno last week. The plan of
merging with the Indian Territory as-
sociation was taken up and favorably
acted upon.
A head-on collision occurred on the
Rock Island railroad betw'een
Okareho and Reno last Friday. Two
freights, running at twenty-five miles
an hour collided. No one was killed,
and but two were hurt.
M. L. Mott has gone to Washington
In the Interest of the Creek nation.
The new $50,000 refinery at Mus-
kogee. being erected by Independent
parties, will be in operation by De-
cember 1.
! CABINET CHANGES
WHOM CURRENT RUMOR SAYS
WILL ADVISE PRESIDENT
ONLY TV/0 CHANCES ARE ANNOUNCED
Moody Will Remain as Attorney-Gen-
eral— Cortclyou to be Head of the
Postal Department—Hitchcock may
Retire from Interior Department
WASHINGTON: It has been an-
nounced at the white house that
Attorney General Moody has decided
10 remain in President Roosevelts
new cabinet.
Prior to his transfer from the navy
department to tho department of jus-
tice. .Mr. Moody himself, authorized
the statement that, at the conclusion
(of tho present administration, he
would retire from the cabinet to
practice law in Roston. It was stat-
ed in this connection that Mr. Moody
-had formed a law partnership that
was congenial and advantageous in
011 respects. This was given as his
Snnly reason for retiring from public
life.
It was known for some time that
the office of attorney-general of the
Vnifed States was not entirely to Mr.
Moody s liking, and, as it was known
also that President Roosevelt desired
that Mr. Moody should continue in
the cabinet, the announcement made
jwas not surprising.
; R is understood that the president
(and Mr. Moody are in perfect accord
*ln their ideas as to the conduct of
the department of justise, and. in or-
der to carry into effect certain plans
which the president and he have for-
mulated, Mr. Moody has decided, on
the request of Mr. Roosevelt, to con-
tinue in the office of attorney-general.
The decision of Attorney-General
Moody renders it reasonably certain
that the heads of six of the great ex-
ecutive departments of the govern-
ment have been determined on by the
president for the next administration.
Mr. Hay will continue the head of
the state department; Mr. Taft at
the head of the war department; Mr.
Metcalf at the head of thtj depart-
ment of commerce and labor; Mr.
W ilson at the head of agriculture,
and National Chairman George B.
Cortelyou will be postmaster general
after the 4th of next March.
It is expected also that Mr. Shaw
will continue as secretary of the
treasury and Mr. Morton as secretary
of the navy; but as to those two no
definite informtaion is obtainable.
A change is expected in the depart-
ment of the interior, but Secretary
Hitchcock has not let it be known
publicly whether he desires to retire
or not.
KILLED THE WRONG MAN
Tom Powsil Guilty of the Rufus
Choate Murder
ARDMORE: In the United States
court at Pauls A'alley, Tom Powell
was found guilty of the murder of
Rufus Choate, a prominent farmer
who resided near Nebo. The crime
was committed two years ago near
the border of Oklahoma. The first
trial resulted in a hung jury. It de-
veloped at the trial that Bert Cassy,
a notorious outlaw, who was killed
later by officers in Oklahoma, was
an accomplice of Powell in the mur-
der of Choate. It was shown that
robbery was the motive of the crime,
but that Choate was not the intended
victim.
Money that talks does little else.
Money that whispers re-echoes where
least expected. Money that acts
might save many a broken heart from
a suicide's grave.—Thyson Marr.
ARRANGING A PLAN
Judge Townsend Busily Preparing
Probate Court Matters
MUSKOGEE: Judge Townsend of
the United States court, northern dis-
trict. is preparing a plan of handling
the probate business of the Choctaw
nation in his tribunal and the others
in the district, thus removing the last
vestige of authority from the Indian
courts of the nation.
The probate jurisdiction of the In-
dian courts was taken away last
April by a provision of the Indian ap-
propriation bill and given into the
bands of the United States courts. In
the Chickasaw nation, however, the !
courts were so heavily burdened with
other business that they did not have
time to take charge of probate mat-
ters until recently.
Judge Townsend Is now busy bring-
ing order out of chaotic conditions
which existed when the Indian courts
had charge of probate matters, and
he expects to have a perfect system
evolved in a few days. The Indian
courts were very lax in guardianship
matters and this has cause,] a mix-up
that will require several months to
straighten out entirely.
JURY LEGALLY IMPANELLED
Judgs Beauchamp Sees No Reasor,
Why Indictments Are Not Good
OKLAHOMA CITY: The work o!
the recent grand jury which indicted"
a number of saloon men, and the
county attorney as well, has been
held to be legal by tho presiding
judge. The validity was attacked
by the defendants, upon tho grounds
that it was packed, and a motion by
attorneys to quash indictments failed.
It was contended in the motion and
affidavits of the defendants that one
Swan, a minister of the gospel, had
caused to he selected by the United
States deputy marshal such men as
would prosecute those engaged in the
liquor business, regardless of the suf-
ficiency of the evidence to warrant in-
dictments, and that Swan caused men
who were prejudiced against those
engaged in the liquor business to be
selected, and that he procured him-
self to be chosen as one of the grand
jurors.
After listening to testimony in sup-
port of the’ motion to quash the panel
Judge Beauchamp said: “The amend-
ed statutes of 1895 fully cover the
empaneling of thij grand jury, and
that statute has been complied with.
“The question raised in the mo-
tion to quash the panel on the ground
of irregular conduct on the part of
the deputy marshal in selecting the
grand jury, if established by the evi-
dence. would be sufficient eause to
sustain the motion to quash the panel
and set aside the indictments. But
the evidence fails to establish those
allegations, and only shows that the
deputy marshal endeavored to select
men whom he believed to be good
and honest, and who would enforce
the criminal statutes, and in this ho
is to be commended.
“These are such grand juries as
the law requires, rather than the se-
lection of men for such duties who,
because of their own interest in the
business of selling liquor in violation
of law, or who, because of their
friendship for those engaged in the
business, might be led to favor and
be lenient with them.”
He further said that the grand
jurors were to he commended for
their zeal in these investigations,
and that the motion to set aside the
indictments and quash the pane]
would be overruled.
This decision by agreement settles
this phase of other saloon cases in-
volved, and practically settles the
question of the grand jury’s action in
the accusation returned against the
county Attorney, Ralph Ramer.
LEVIED ON A FREIGHT T RAIN
A Branch of the Rock Island Tied Up
by an Oklahoma Constable
LAWTON: A Rock Island freight
train was levied upon by J. AT. Ben-
nett, a constable for Beaver town-
ship, just as it was about to lea re
Waurika. Several months ago some
cattle belonging to persons living in
the Indian Territory were killed by a
train. These persons came over the
line into Oklahoma and instituted suit
for damages before G. M. Tucker,
justice of the peace at Corum. They
obtained judgment on three counts.
The railroad company permitted the
matter to go by default and the con-
stable was ordered to attach certain
property belonging to it. The en
gine to the freight train was chained
down as a result. It is believed by
some that the cases have been ap-
pealed. but if they have the constable
and justice of the peace are not aware
of it, and the engine is still being
held. Meanwhile the single freight
train on the Enid & Waurika road is
tied up and the dignity of the court
is sustained.
“Why don't you go to work and
earn money, as I did at your age?”
“My dear father,” said the compla-
cent youth, "if I were to go ahead
and work, what would be the use of
your having done so?”—Washington
Star.
LAWSON SUED
Writer of “Frenzied Finance,” Ap-
pearing in Everybody's, Defendant
NEW YORK: Suit has been insti-
tuted by Paul Fuller of this city
against Thomas AV. Laws ton of Bos-
ton for $350,000. Fuller, who is an
attorney, said he himself was the
plaintiff in the suit, but as to the na-
ture of the proceedings or its cause
he declined to have anything to say.
It is reported that Lawson's recent
writings had caused the bringing ol
the suit, but this was dented by Mr.
Fuller.
Lorenzo Semple of the law firm cl
Coudert Brothers said that the suit
was over a private transaction be-
tween Lawson and Fuller, and had
nothing to do with the writings cl
the Boston man.
RICHARDSN—NOV. 22—TWO
To Save Cherokee Capitol
MUSKOGEE: The women of Tal-
oquah have started to raise a fund
to purchase the old Cherokee capltol
building to preserve as a memento ot
the Cherokee nation. They will ask
the Cherokee council now In sesslor
there to assist in the movement.
Find the Scholar.
ELECTION JUDGES GUILTY
ROGERS’ IMPORTANT QUERIES
Colorado Election Officers Receive
Penalty for Substituting Ballots
DENVER: Thomas Shepardson,
Peter Miller and Michael Dowd, demo-
cratic election officers, were adjudged
guilty by the supreme court of sub
gtituting ballots and swearing in an
election clerk wrongfully at the re-
cent election, and, in addition to being
fined, were sentenced to prison.
Shepardson and Millie were fined $1.-
000 each and sentenced to jail for one
year. Dowd was fined $250 and sen-
tenced to jail for sixty days.
The lights were extinguished at the
polling place where the men were of-
ficers for a few minutes after the
polls closed, and during this period,
it is alleged, the ballots were changed.
The men were taken before the su-
preme court on a charge of contempt,
having disregarded Instructions is-
sued by the court as to the conduct
of the election.
The court denied to the three de-
fendants permission to appeal to the
federal court. Their attorneys an-
nounce that they will take the cases
before the United States supreme
court, on the ground that the state
supreme court has no right to assume
original jurisdiction in election cases
,and send men to jail without trial by
:a jury.
In al^ twenty-seven men have been
isummoned before the supreme court
|for alleged offenses at the late elec-
tion.
COULD NOT TAKE AN OATH
Loyalty to Religious Belief Cost
One Man His Position
MUSKOGEE: Loyalty to his re-
ligious belief will probably cost one
Indian Territory teacher his job, un-
less he retracts from his decision not
to take the oath required of teachers
by the government that he will sup-
port the constitution of the United
States.
This teacher has charge of a little
school near Fame, and he belongs to
the Seventh Day Adventist church.
When J. D. Benedict, superinten-
dent of schools in Indian Territory,
last month asked him to take the
oath of allegiance he surprised tho su-
perintendent that he could not con-
scientiously do so.
“My religion teaches mo that it Is
wicked to go to war,” said the teach-
rr, “and if I should agree to support
the constitution I would have to
fight for the country if called upon to
do so.”
A man coming home at 3 o’clock in
(ho morning ran be as quiet as sneak-
ing upstairs as he can be nob,7 with
his growls the next morning.
Cherokee Chief Propounds Some
Questions to the Council
ARDMORE: Governor Rogers of.
the Cherokee nation has made some1
important inquiries of the council,
now in session. Among other things
he asks:
“What shall be done with our sur-j
plus land? It may be scattered over
the nation in small tracts, but how-
ever it is located no provision has
been made for disposing of it.
“What provision, if any, is to be
made for those born since September
1, 1902?
“What disposition is to be made of.
the public buildings and grounds and
other personal property belonging to’
the Cherokee nation?
“What provision is to be made, if
any, for disposing of the title and in-
terest of the nation to the lands oc-'
cupied by railroads for right-of-way
and station grounds? They have
only an easement at present, the le-
gal title being in the nation, which
will be forever lost when the nation
ceases to exist.
“What arrangements are to be
made for our school, and continuing
our present school system, provided
another has not been established by
March 4, 1906, to take its place?
"The appraisement of towns in the
Cherokee nation is not yet completed.
By sections 45 and 47 of the present
agreement purchasers have three
years within which to pay for lots.
This period will extend beyond March
4, 1906.
"What arrangements are to be
made for the distribution of these
funds when paid, or is the disburse-
ment of all funds to he postponed un-
til that time, and what provision is
to be made for an authorized officer,
representing the Cherokee nation, to
execute and deliver the deeds there-
after to he issued?”
DESTROYED BY FIRE
The Missouri Building at the World’s
Fair in Ashes
ST. LOUIS: The Missouri build-
ing, with practically all of its con-
tents, was burned Saturday evening.
The fire was caused by the explosion
of the hot water heater in the base-
ment. The fiames immediately spread
through the whole of the building,
and it was a solid mass of flames be-
fore Hie fire department could reacli
it. Three men were injured by a
falling wall, hut while all were in-
jured considerably, only one of them
is in a serious condition. The great-
er part of Hie loss sustained was on
Hie contents of Ihe building, which
comprised many items of historic
value to the state, which cannot be
replaced.
Arrested the Janitor
CHICKA8HA: On the Cth day of
last October a package containing
about $5,000 disappeared from I lie
Citizens’ National hank of Clilcknslin
Officers of the bank, while having
their suspicions, were not able to ae
count for the money. Owen Fit/.
Patrick, the negro Janitor of the haul,,
went to Cashier Johns and said lie
wanted to deposit $2,000 which he
had received from his. own and hla
wife's people. The eiahler u r-’< * j 1 f < -, |
(lie deposit and tin 11 called In lajmiy
Marshal Harden, who look charge
of the negro. A smirch wumml war
secured and In the houitc u| l it/
Patrick $2,855 In currency wn foilin'
Gambling Holism Maided
ARDMORE: The ganihllng lour, ,
at Pun Is Valiev, when, fcdeiHl mini |
in session, were nihlcil 1 m >,, 11. |,y
United Billies officer A mini I III ,,f
alleged giimlih 1 ■ went |,l...... ,,ii,|ci
arrest. W. It John on 1 n 1 >> ,| , i„|,.,
district alinin'v, ssys lint! gambling
In the soul III 1 n dlsl 1 |i I linn I 11 ,1 *
and Mini every offi tie i|| |„, ........
culetl to the follnjl I ill III of lln I , ,
PRISONER ASSAULTED A GUARD
Man Confined In South McAlester Jail
Given the Water Cure
SOUTH McALEHTRR: Grant Wil-
liams, finder sentence of death for
the murder of I wo railway contractors
at Huilnyvtlln. made n vicious nssault
upon Guard Reeves at ihe federal jail
here with II piece of water pipe which
he hud wrenched loose from his cell.
He uirurk al Reeves us the guard was
iinloeliIng Hie cell. Reefer shielded
Ills head with Ills nrni.
’I Im guards could not get the
v ■ i|i si away from Williams until
i 1 hey liml played a hose on his face
iur I wo ami a half hours. By means
"f prods lie was forced lo turn his
fne' lo the mi ream until ho was sub-
dued ms yells during the drench-
leg could tie ....... for.Hoverul blocks.
'\' 111 In in 1. who has shown a bad dis-
11 nip-.i 1 )■ in rm Minin' time, will herenfttd
h" kepi in solitary confinement.
(.Monti (ireokenrldge Is Dead
LEXINGTON, KY.: Colonel Wil-
II"in C p llieekenrldgo died at Ills
ImniM here from Ihe effects of 11 stroke
"f pirMlfi'a, *UHiallied a few days
ago
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