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WESTERN PIONEER TELLS OF
KILLING OF YEARS AGO
J
Alexander Beeubien is the first white
rhild born in Chicago. That interest-
ing event took place eighty-two years
ago. He is also the oldest policeman
in the world, and furthermore he car-
ried one secret for seventy years—
probably a world’s record.
Recently he told the pupils of the
higher grades at the Jones school all
about early times in Chicago and also
all about the secret.
"Yes,” said the veteran, "it is a little
story that will be of some interest to
the children and as there is now no
reason for it being kept I am going to
tell them all about it.
"It was when I was ten years of
age, when we wero living on the West
Side in the shadow of the old stock-
ade. My uncle at that time had charge
of the payment of the treaty money to
the Indians and it was during one of
these festivals that I killed a man.
“The Northern Indians had assem-
bled to get their share of Uncle Sam’s
money and among the crowd was one
Sauk from the south, who was not en-
titled to anything. He joined the oth-
er red men in their potations, how-
ever, and when vary drunk go* 1, into
some trouble with my uncle.
"I was told to watch him while my
uncle went inside the house to get a
whip, and when he came out the Indian
was given a severe beating.
“That was all there was to it at
the time, but about a week later I was
out hunting, and this Indian made a
dash out the bushes with his knife in
his hand to take my scalp. I had an
old double-barreled shotgun with me,
and when he came close up I gave him
the contents of it in the face.
I ftifled the In-
dian. I Have
Kept the Secret
70 Year*. —
ALEXANDER
BEAUBIEN.
"He was dead, and I buried the
body as well as I could and went
home. I told my mother about it and
she told me to mention the fact to no
one. 1 did not and she died without
telling the secret.
“The reason for secrecy was that
the Sauk were at that time a warlike
and powerful tribe, and had they
learned that one of their number had
been shot by a white man it is more
than probable they would have
swooped down on the stockade and
killed all the pioneer citizens ol Chi-
cago.
”1 don t think there is any danger
that the Sauk will wipe the city out of
existence now, so there is no harm
in telling the secret."
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jCOUNGIL CLOSES'
| CREEK LAWMAKERS ADJOURN,!
i AFTER THREE WEEKS’ SESSION
i ANTIPATHY EXISTS IN THE NATION
Racial Feeling Manifested
Itself in
Many Ways—Creeks Hold
That Ne-
groes Should Have No
Part in
Deliberations
OKMULGEE: The Creek
council.
which ha3 been in session
for the
past three we k*, h s rlosed. Much
important legislation was
passed
during the closing hours.
j One of the mo t remarkable fea-
|tuies of this council has been the an
tlpatby which has developed on the ;
part of ti e full-blood Creeks toward
the freedmen (negroes) who are mem-
i bars of tire council. This racial
feeling has manifested Itself in many
ways, and is the first time it has ever
appeared in the council. When those
! negroes v. ho were forme ly slaves of
tho Creeks, came bu< k to the Creek
nation after the civil war they wero
granted equal rights by the govern
ment, and thus ob’ained communal
rights with the Crooks. They have
been accepted without a murmur in
the legislative halls of the Creeks
until this session of the council. The
negroes have been given their land,
and the restrictions removed from it
by the department. The Indians
have been unable to secure the re
moval of their disability. '1 hoy claim,
too, that the negroer. have received
jail that is (heir share and should no j
I longer have a voice in making laws
for (lie Creek nation, of which they
are no longer a part. This raoc feel-
ing has croppd out a number of
times this fall during the sessions of
the council.
The council has pppropriated $7G,-
000 for tho maintenance of the
schools of tho Creek nation. There
are nine boarding schools and about
j twenty-five clay schools. In addition
! to these there are forty schools es-
tablished by the government this
your, which may be attended by both
Indians and whites. This appropri-
ation exhausts every dollar of the
Creek national school fund. It will
he used one year. After that time
the Creeks will he without money tor
their schools, unless it can be raised
from some other source. It is ex-
pected tho government will take the
matter in hand and provide schools,
although this is purely problematical,
os the last government appropriation
Is but for one year.
OKLAHOMA NOT REPRESENTED
In Government’s Cotton Ginning Re-
port, Just Issue-i
GUTHRIE: Although the report
of the government has been issued,
showing the amount of cotton ginned
in the various cotton growing states
of the south, yet no mention is made
there n of the cotton in Oklahoma and
Indian Territory. These territories
aro eliminated entirely.
This is evidently not the fault of
the government, but rather should be
blamed to those persons who were
named to collect cotton statistics for
Claims He Saw Birth of Party.
E. W. Judd, now a resident of Ev-
erett, Wash., claims that it was In his
parlor, near Ripon, Wls., that the
formation of the Republican party was
decided upon. Mr. Judd is now a Pro-
hibitionist. In 1S54 ho was a freo
soiler. The question came up that
year of bow to rid Wisconsin of the
men in power. A preliminary meeting
was held in a schoolhouse, but Judd’s
support as a leading free soiler was
desired. Ho was visited by a commit-
tee and signed tho call for a conven-
tion. The movement was outlined in
his parlor. The call declared against
the further extension of slavery. It
was published in anti-slavery papers
and in the New York Tribune, in
answer to Horaco Greeley’s query as
to the name of tho new organization
one of the leaders dubbed it tho Re-
publican party.
i Perfect Wireless Telegraphy.
, Signor Marconi, who is in Washing-
ton at the Italian embassy, says that
the British admiralty can communi-
cate with one of its warships any-
where on the Atlantic ocean or in the
Mediterranean at any moment. “If It
should become necessary for tho Brit-
ish government to send orders to the
fleet it would be done by wireless,”
tie continued. "Eighty of tho British
warships, including most of the Pa-
cific vessels, of the Mediterranean and
channel fleet, have been equipped with
long-distanco apparatus, and in Iho
other vessels tho system is being in-
stalled as rapidly as possible. Wire-
less communication between England
and Gibraltar has been In uninterrupt-
ed service for many mouths in spite
of the fact that messages must trav-
erse a long stretch of Spanish terri-
tory.”
Prefers to Live in America.
A. J. Drexcl, tho Philadelphia mil-
lionaire, arrived home the other day
from n trip along the Pacific coast,
just in time to learn from the news-
papers that he contemplates taking up
his permanent abode in England. Mr.
Drexei indignantly denies the report,
saying he has not the slightest inten-
tion of following Mr. Aster’s example.
“I am an admirer of England,” he says,
“but I like my own country infinitely
better. The rumor may have arisen
from the fact that Lord Vane Tem-
pest was my companion on the jour-
ney to the Pacific and back.”
Schoolboy Cause of Quarrel.
John Barwlc, a boy of Canadian
birth and parentage, was attending a
public school in Pomona, Cal., where
ills parents now reside. The Ameri-
can flag is hoisted over the school-
house every morning and nil scholars
aro expected to salute it. This was
too much for Johnny’s rich Canadian
blood and he refused to follow the
general custom. Thereupon ho was
sent home by Miss Hill, the teacher,
who has been sustained by .he local
board of education. The boy’s parents
uphold him in his refusal to raise his
cap.
Clings to Useful Life.
Miss Isabel Hagner, private secre-
tary to Mrs. Roosevelt, lias a fortune
ample for all tho frivolities of New-
port and Tuxedo or for division of her
life between Fifth avenue and llel-
grave square, but she prefers to fol-
low the useful career she mapped out
for herself when, with a thinner purse,
she entered scmipubllc life. When
Miss Hagner came into a handsome In-
heritance recently site gave no sign of
intention to leave her present post.
the government. There are supposed
to b * agents at work in all districts,
and if they do not report, of course
th • government has no way of includ-
ing the territories in this report.
Tire cotton ginned in the territories
would show up frvorably with sever-
al of the states, and would show more
than a number of the oldest cotton-
growing states, and the territories
should have this additional showing
to their credit. This work should
be placed in the hands of men who
will attend to it.
BIG COMPANY ORGANIZED
Asphalt Refining Company With $250,-
000 Capital for Oklahoma
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.: The Union
Asphalt Refining company of Oklaho-
ma was organized by a party of Ala-
bama, Georgia, Kentucky and Oklaho-
ma capitalists in this city with a capi-
tal stock of $250,000, $140,0C0 of which
Is already paid up, Dr. A. D. Belling
of Florence, Ala., is president and Col.
A. T. Hamilton of Oklahoma City is
vice president
The company will begin tho erection
of a nfty-ton refinery at Oklahoma
City at once with which to develop
Its large fields of asphalt in Indian
Territory consisting of several hun-
dred acres
This organization has been in tho
course of formation for some time,
and tho money has been pledged. it
was decided recently that tho opera-
tions should begin as soon as a plant
can bo erected, and it was determined
to locate the refinery at Oklahoma for
the reason that It affords a central
point for distribution. It Is expected
that the plant will represent the full
capital of a quarter of a million when
completed and in operation.
LOOKS BAD FOR BINGHAM
Some Crooked Work Being Practiced i
—Dawes Commission Employes In It
TISHOMINGO: Some sensational
testimony was given in the hearing
of G. W. Bingham, the Tishomingo
attorney, who was summoned before j
the Dawes commission here to show !
cause why he should not be disbarred
from practicing before the commis-
sion.
The hearing was conducted before
Tams Blxby, chairman, and G. D: j
Rogers, chief counsel. Final decision
was deferred until the other mem-
bers of the commission can be con-
sulted. Two clerks have already been
discharged, F. C. White and W. Me-
Davitt, as a result of an Investiga-
tion from Washington.
Evidence was introduced at the j
hearing to show that Bingham had of- j
fered bribes to the janitor to get pos |
session of records and had advanced j
hi-; clients ahead of those of other j
lawyers in their turns of filing at the
land office, contrary to the rules of
tho commission. Mr. Rogers intro- j
duced testimony given by Bingham at
a previous hearing, which was in sub- j
stance:
"Last Saturday night I saw Turner
near the hotel. I told ffim I did not
have all the records necessary for
my work. I toid him I would give him
$100 for the use of those rolls Satur-
day night and over Sunday. About
(hat time a third party came up and
that stopped the convetsation. I made
tho offer for the purpose of finding
out who was getting information that
I could not get and how they were
going about it.’’
J. W. Morris, a Tishomingo attor- [
ney, testified that Bingham told him
that he (Bingham) could get inl’orma- i
tion by paying for it
"f heard him say," continued the
witness, "that he could shove people
ahead of their regular number by pay-
ing for it.”
3. W. Burton, mailing clerk in the j
land office and a close friend of
Bingham, slated that one night he
went to the attorney's house and saw
a book in his room which looked iden-
tically like one of the roll books of the
land office, and that a stenographer
was taking data from it. Turner saw
this through an open window.
In rebuttal Bingham attempted to
show that it. was the common practice
at the land office to advance people
out of their turn where they wore rep-
resented by favored attorneys.
Waiter Worden testified that tram- J
bers were taken out of the office of E.
C. White and placed upon the spindle
in (he filing division before they
should bo reached.
Fred T. Marr, chief clerk at the
land office, was placed on the stand
by Bingham’s attorney in an attempt
to prove that at least ten persons had
the combination to the valut where
tho records were kept, some of whom
were not at the time employes of the
commission. Mr. Marr explained that j
some ex-employos, wno previously had
a right to access to the vault, still re- [
tained the combination, but that it |
was not given to anyone who had no
business with it.
Mr. Bingham’s attorney attempted
to prove that Mr. Marr had assisted
Bingham in opening the safe one even-
ing Marr said that he did not remem-
ber such an occurrence.
In an rttempt to prove thatp lats of
the allcted and unallC'o'i lands wore
given out from the land office con-
trary to the rules of tho commission.
John McClure, of Chickasba, was j
placed upon the stand and swore that j
he bought such a plat from a land |
man by the name of Chapman, who
declared that he could get them when- |
ever he wanted them.
McClure testified that he acted as
a go-between for another man, who
wanted to see if tho plats ccuid be |
bought and that he paid Chapman
$7.50 for it. The testimony intro-
duced by Bingham to prove corruption
in the land office, although sensational,
was not defiiil e, and involves no per-
sons in particular except those who
are not no.v connected with the office
or who have been discharged as the
resulto f previous investigations.
It is not likely that any further
hearings will be held by the com-
mission unless others a o recom-
mended for dismissal as the result of
Conser’s investigation.
NORTH AND SOUTH ROAD
Plenty of Money to Build From Du-
luth to Galveston
DALLAS, TEX.: Col. E. D.Steger,
of Bonham, who is behind the pro-
jected railroad to he built (rom Du-
luth, Minnesota to Galveston, has been
in the city in consultation with Col.
J. N. Simpson, the financial manager
of the enterprise.
Col. Stcger stated that he did not !
care to mention at this time just what
titles the road will touch.
The road Is a certainty as every
dollar of the $78,000,000 has been sub-
! scribed and I am In receipt of cnble-
i grams urging Col. Simpson and myself
to bo In Paris at as early a date ns
j possible and we will both sail very |
j soon for Fiance. The names of the [
hackers of tho enterprise will be with- j
held from the public for the present
but they have all the money behind
them they ni e'd.”
First "Passenger Traffic Manager.”
Lucius Tuttle, now president of the
Boston and Maine railroad, was tho
first man to hold the title of "passen-
ger traffic manager.” It was bestowed
upon him by President Van Ilorne of
the Canadian Pacific railway. Van
Horne created the position for Tuttle
in 1887, so as not to interfere with
the rank or title of officers already em-
ployed and because tho Canadian Pa-
cific was largely owned In England,
where railway officials’ titles are dif-
ferent from those in America.
Noted Vocalist Is Dead.
By tho recent death In Melbourne of
Mrs. Theodosia Stewart In her nine-
tieth year, tho first woman who sang
tho title role of "Maritana” in the
Southern hemisphere, has passed
away. She herself always maintained
that she sang the part in Sydney be-
foro tho first production of the opera
In Drury Lane in November, 1845.
She was well acquainted with its com-
poser, tho gifted but erratic Irishman,
William Vincent Wallace, who vas a
resident of Sydney in the late ’30s.
Four Men Desert
LAWTON: Four United States sol-
diers of tho Eighth cavalry have
deserted from Ft. Sill. Lieutenant
Colonel Kingsbury has offered a $50
roward for etch. The recent Inform-
ation that these troops aro to he sent
to the Philippines Is said to be the
cause of the desertatlon.
Elephants 8leep Little.
The elephant In his prime sleeps
only five hours a night, and the older
grows the legs sleep h» needs.
TRIED THE PAT CROW GAME
Oklahoma Banker's Son to be Kid-
naped Barring Payment of $100
SHAWNEE: A lett r mailed In the
postofflee hand box here addressed to
II. T. Douglas, president of tho Shaw
neo Nailonal Bank of this city, con-
tained the statement that he must do
posit $100 In a black pocketbook on i
street, designated In the letter, or hli
little son would bo kidnaped and
killed. Mr. Douglas took the officer!
into his confidence and deposited the
money In the place named, officers be-
ing stationed in a nearbj houses
Davidson (SL Case
Dealers in
All Kinds of Building Material,
Lime and Coal.
L It Garner, Mgr. McLoud, Okla.
YARDS A 1
"Wiclvita
El Reno
OKlaHom*
CHicKasHa
Pond Creek
Minco
Enid
Choctaw
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TROS. HOT,LIS, Pres. L. B. HELIKER. Cashier.
First National BanK
' . .. -mu; 1 -iSuecessor to-----— .. .. —
State Bank of McLoud
Every Courtesy Extended Consist, n with Good Panking.
Caplial Slock $25,000.
Goaud of Directors: Thos. Hollis, Wm. Jarvis, C. B. Boylan, A. G. Holliv
L E M P G E S
Fo a Good, Cold, Refreshing Drink. The Finest
line of Pure Whiskey in the City. Cold Beer
always on tap. Temperanc« drinks in endless
variety. Yours to pleasa
McLoud. Oklahoma- JAKE LEMPGE3
Longings for Old Town
?r.trbebaw^ ris
Vhv 1 could meet a man I owed
As gladly as a man that owes me.
want some one to slap my back
All' say. "Well, how s old Bill this
want” to'meet some one that smiles _
An’ don't pass by with scowl an
scornin'.
wish I was in our old town.
Kor I seem lost here in the city*,
<0 use to look at folks you pass,
Their eyes show neither love not pity,
want some one to shake my hand
That’s out o' use an' urowin rusty;
I wish I was in our old town.
■\Yhere if you’ve luck they're sure to
know it.
An’ if it goes the other way
They’ve got some feelln’ an’ they show
it.
I want to stand and have the dogs
Come up an sniff, with tails a-waggin ,
I want to hear the roosters crow
An’ hoar Jack Wilson's joke3 an’ nag-
gin'.
Wish T was hack in our old town,
I want to hear some people luffin1 .
An’ hear the kids say “Howdy, Bill!
An' stand again John Joslin's chuftln ;
I want to see the girls I know,
An' with Ike Walters go u-f\nhin .
Wish I was back in our old town—
Those 268 Famous Words
President Roosevelt’s Memorial day
address at Gettysburg suggests to a
writer in Harper’s Weekly some in-
teresting reflections on the subject of
the great speech of forty years ago,
with which Gettysburg will always be
associated. Lincoln, it will be remem-
bered, followed" Edward Everett-
then the foremost of American ora-
tors—on the occasion of the dedica-
tion of the battlefield on Nov. 19,
18C3. Yet the 2C8 words of Lincoln’s
address "made Everett's long oration
seem academic, perfunctory, verbose,
inadequate, tame.” In that brief
speech, affirms the writer, Lincoln—
excepting a famous passage in the ora-
tion “On the Crown”—outdid Demos-
thenes. So large and lofty aro the
thoughts, and so exquisitely fitting are
the words, that hardy indeed would
be the rhetorician who should try to
edit or retouch them.
It was this speech, as Charles Carle-
Bulldog W
Placid but stern, a brindled bulldog
sat in a 'bus. In the seat by his side
was an elderly gentleman, says the
Paris correspondence of the London
Telegraph. The conductor came up
aghast. "Do you mean to tell me,”
he said to tho passenger, “that you are
unacquainted with the police regula-
tions forbidding the presence of dogs
in ’buses—especially bulldogs?” he
added, eyeing the animal. “What of
that?" answered the elderly gentle-
man. The conductor, naturally chol-
eric, like all his colleagues, grew pur-
ple with rage. “Remove that dog in-
stantly!” he shouted to the passenger,
who, perfectly undisturbed, said: “Cer-
tainly not.” "Then you get out and
take the dog with you.” “By no
means." "I shall throw the dog out
myself.” "Do so.” But the conductor
did not, having caught the eye of the
bulldog, who was beginning to show
interest in the proceedings. ”1 shall
call the police,” the conductor went
on "If you like.”
ton Coffin recalls in his interesting bi-
ography, which Lincoln wrote anil de-
livered so unpretentiously. Lincoln
had inquired of his host, Judge Wil-
lis, on the night before the dedication
day, what the order of exercises was
to lie.
“The oration will bo given by Mr.
Everett," said Judge Willis, “and then
I shall call upon the President of the
United States for some remarks.”
“I supposed I might be expected to
say something,” responded Lincoln,
“and I shall have to put some stray
thoughts together.” And that night, in
his bedroom, after the fatiguing jour-
ney from Washington, he wrote out
his “stray thoughts,” and the next
day, at the close of Everett’s elaborate
address, he “stepped to the front of
the platform, put his spectacles on his
nose, took a sheet of paper from his
pocket, and read what he had written,
and which will be re-read so long as
the Un'ted States is a nation."
is Not His
The policeman came. “Monsieur is
surely aware," he began amiably, “that
bogs are not allowed In omnibuses?”
“I dare say they are not,” the placid
elderly gentleman replied. “I request
you to remove that dog.” “Most cer-
tainly not." ”1 shall then take out a
summons against you. Kindly give
me your name and address.” “With
pleasure, if you wish it. But on what
ground will you summon me, may I
ask?” “This is too much. You arc
defying the law. You will bo sum-
moned for bringing a bulldog into an
omnibus." “I fancy net. Why did you
not explain that before? That is not
my bulldog, and I have not the least
idea why it sits beside me,” said the
elderly gentleman sweetly. At this
the fury of the conductor and police-
man grew almost inarticulate. While
they were struggling to express their
feelings, another man in the omnibus
got up suddenly, whistled, jumped out
and tho bulldog followed him. The
rest of the passengers, delayed halt
an hour, hardly appreciated the joke
Reason in All Animals
Lord Avebury, better known as Sir
John Lubbock, the celebrated natur-
alist, writes: "If many are prone to
exaggerate the intellectual powers of
dogs and horses and elephants, others
go to the opposite extreme. Des-
cartes, we know, looked on animals
as mere automata. Even recently
Bcthe, Uexkull and other writers have
denied the existence of any psychic
powers, at any rate, in invertebrate
animals, which they explain as reflex
machines. I confess, indeed, that I
cannot understand how any one who
loves animals, or ever has devoted
any study to them, can doubt that
they possess some power of reason.
Many of their actions are uncon-
scious and instinctive; so are some
of ours, as we may see by watching
a child, but practice ennliles ns to
walk or run almost automatically.
“Mr. Gladstone told me,” continues
Lord Avebury, pursuing his theme,
“that once when he was forming one
ot his governments he had some dif-
ficulty in arranging the places. He
and Mr. Gladstone wrote down the
titles of .the offices and the names ol
the liberal leaders on pieces of paper
and tried all the evening, but in vain,
to lit them together. At last they
gave it up and went to bed. When
Mt. Gladstone awoke in the morning
everything was satisfactorily arrang-
ed in his head; his brain had worked
it out for him during his sleep. Thi$
was not conscious reason and certain-
ly was not instinctive. Dr. Carpenter
gave to such action the name of un-
conscious cerebration.’’
In further proof that man docs
many things almost automatically
Lord Avebury gives this incident: “I
have been for over forty years a
director or a company, which changed
Its offices twenty years ago, and I
have not since had any occasion to
enter our old house. One morning
this summer, however, I was going to
a committee in our present house, but
thinking of other things, I walked
past our door and two or three inter-
vening houses and into the porch of
our old office.”
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