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COLONY COURIER
I. X. SEGEK, trmp.
N. H. SEGE*. E4am
COLONY - - OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma New* Note*
Steps have been taken tx> Utorpor-
St* U»* town of Stuart.
The Bart! e» villa school* closed J*
ieflnjteiy by order of Dr. O. S. Som-
•rrille, health officer, on account ot
the prevalence ot diphtheria, there
hems * score ot case* in the city.
Jack Langley, bachelor, 56. living
alone on hi* lann near Aideraon, was
found dead in hi* bed. The dead tnan
trai supposed to have money and bad
seen drinking heavily for several
days.
John Blessing, aged 40 years, was
found dead in bis room at Shawnee
Death was due to suffocation, induced
by lung trouble. He was a brother of
William Blessing, a well known Hoc*
Island engineer.
Arthur (i. Cochrane of Muskogee,
tas beefl appointed United Stales
sommiaaloner for the Muskogee dis-
trict by Judge Ralph Campbell of the
federal court. Cochrane succeeds
Commissioner C. A. Nichols who died
s few days ago.
KATY LOSES
IN BIG SUIT
COURT HOLDS CLAIM INVALID
EVEN UNDER OLD GRANT
A HUGE SUM INVOLVED
Road Claimed 3.114.368 Acres of Land
Valued at tCl.2g7.800 Alleged to
Have Been Given as Induce-
ment to Build Road
That there are too many “gun tot-
era” in Carter county, was the com-
plaint made to the county commla-
sioners, and the commissioners re-
voked the licenses of all deputy con-
stables and possemen, with the ex-
ception of deputies in two large town
Shlph.
Washington. D. C.—Suit for land
worth $61,287,000 and numbering 3,-
114,264 acres In what was once Indian
Territory, fil®d by the Missouri. Kan- I
sas and Texas Railway against the
government, practically was dismissed
by the court of claims when it sus
tained the government's demurrer to
the railway's action.
The court held that the claim, even
under the old grant, which was given
as an inducemcit to the speedy con-
struction of a line north and south
through Oklahoma, was not valid as ,
the contract provided that the railway
company was not to receive said grant
until land titles had been extinguished
by the Indians.
In its petition the railway declared .
it had met all provisions of its con- |
I' FARMER GETS
ONLY A HALE
OF EVERY DOLLAR SPENT BY
CONSUMER FOR FOOD
UNCLE SAMASKING WHY
Secretary Wilson, In Annual Report
Dealt With Storage Problem, and
Urges Publicity for Amount
of Food in Cold Storage
tcopvrtehi. rvil-t
SMALLER ACREAGE SOWN
TO WHEAT THIS
YEAR
SEGREGATED LAND BILL
IS QUITE LIKELY TO PASS
Moisture is Needed Everywhere—Ok-
lahoma Fields Not Up to the
1911 Standard. Says Report
Measure to Dispose of Surface Coal
and Asphalt Lands of Indians
Is Favored
Washington. D. C.—With the entire
was Oklahoma delegation in congress baek-
the ing the measure, the bill proposing
of the surface of the Choc-
taw and Chickasaw segregated coal
and asphalt lands probably will be
passed at this session.
Senator Owen will bring up the
measiye before the Indian committee
Thirty-six hours after Frank Hun-
ter attempted to cash a forged check
for $20o st the Shawnee National
bank and attempted to escape amid a
bail of bullets from the bank teller's
gun, he pleaded guilty to forgery in
the second degree, was sentenced to
serve one year in the penitentiary and
was on bis way to McAlester.
Washington —Winter wheat
sown on a smaller acreage in
tract with the government in the con- L-nited sutea this fall than last year, the sale
struction of the road; that the same accor(jjng to the department of agri-
was approved and accepted by the cn)turBB crop review. The condition
government and that In pursuance of Qf tfae crop ! waB 4.1 per
the general government policy the c<>n, batter tban a ypar ago but 3 3
government extinguished the Indian 1 ^ #gB| legg tban the t*n year aver-
title to the lands in question by treat- ; f<)r thal date A tola| of 32,212,000 of the senate for a hearing, which will
les and legislation; that the greater acre> 435,001; fewer than last year, be attended by Pat Hurley, attorney
portion of the lands had been allotted wag piant<!d A continuation of fav- for the Choctaws, V. M. Locke, Choc-
to the Individual Indians and the un- orabje conditions may result in an in- taw chief and other Oklahomans. Rep-
allotted lands sold by the defendants creaged crop over last year resentatlve Scott Ferns, of the house
to others than Indians, and otherwise an(j make the total acreage Increased committee on Indian affairs, has the
disposed of the railway rights and BOm(.wbat
claims despite numerous protests. j -j-be December crop report of the
The opinion of the court sets forth j department of agriculture shows 32,-
At the last regular monthly meet-
Ing of the McAlester Bchool board ths
members went on record aB being op
posed to the roughness In both foot
pall and basketball games. Football
In the future will be prohibited it
matched games with other teams
when called for Friday. Basketbai!
trill not be permitted to be playet
in the high achool building and must
be played In the open.
W, P. Pickering has started suit
to collect from the city of Bartlesville
|1,000 which 'he claims is due him
for injuries received from a rifle ball
Inflicted at a time w hen he was pass
Ing In the rear of a shooting gallery
during the month of August He be
Uwves, inasmuch as the place was
•peratlng under a permit from the
city, that the city should be respon
glble for any damage caused thereby.
State Auditor Leo Meyer added to
the collection of the Btate Historical
•oclety, recently, by the presentation
of a chair 103 years old, Which onc«
was the property of Daniel Boone
Tbe Interesting relic, which is of thv
old straight-backed, split-hickory type
Is in an excellent state of prnserva
tlon, and is as serviceable as the day
it was made. It was received by Uus
todlan W. 1’. Campbell on behalf 01
the society. The chair was donated
by Auditor Meyer in the name of Bil
Cross, former secretary of state, now
deceased. It was presented to Croat
by Captain Carrlck and John B. Doo
11n of Alva In 11*08, when it was just
100 yean* old. A complete history ol
the Interesting relic has been kept
and It shows that the relic now is
exactly 103 years old.
that previous to the grant to the rail-
road the government, which then
dealt with the Indians as It would ns-
213,000 acres sown to winter wheat
this fall, compared with the newly re-1
vised estimates, baaed on the census
tions, entered into treaties with the bureau's 1909 statement of acreage of
various Indian tribes, conveying to 1 22,648,000 acres for the crop of 1911,
them title and dominion over tbeir i an<1 31,656.000 acres for the crop of
tribal lands. As these treaties ante 1910
dated the granting act, they assuredly The condition of winter wheat on
nulled a governmental Intention to j December 1. was 86 6 per cent of nor-
grant to another a right Just previous-
ly given under the treaty stipulations,
and there was nothing to do but im-
pose a condition, and that was tbe ex-
tinguishing of Indian titles
Tbe opinion further recites that in
March, 1893, nearly forty years after
tbe granting act, congress provided
for the commission to negotiate with
the Creeks, Chlckasaws and Cherokee
Indian tribes, the tribes concerned In
the suit, looking toward a dissolution
of tbeir tribes and a cession or allot-
ment severally among them of their |
lands. The body commonly known «h
the Dawes commission, proceeded to j
the negotiations with the Indians and ,
secured agreements from the tribes as
to the terms of disposition of their
landed Interests. With some excep-
tions the entire body of Indian land
mal. compared with 82.5 In 1910, 95.8
in 1909 and 89 9 the ten year average.
The area sown this fall to rye is es-
timated at 2 436,ouO acres, compared
with the revised estimated area of 2.-
415,000 acres for the crop of 1911 and
2,413,100 acres for the crop of 1910.
The condition of rye on December 1
was 93 3 per cent of a normal compar-
ed with 92 6 in 1910. 94 1 in 1909 and
92 3 the ten year average.
Washington.—“The consumer pays
a dollar for food; the fanner gets less
than 50 cents of iL Who gets the
rest T“
That is a question which Secretary
Wilson of the department of agricul-
ture asks in his annual report. The
secretary does not attempt to answer
iL He does explain in some detail the
results of an investigation his depart-
ment has just concluded into the effect
of cold storage on the wholesomenesa
and cost of food. His investigation
leads him to recommend publicity for
the amount of food in cold storage
just as the department now gives pub-
licity to the condition of crops from
month to month.
Instead of food remaining in stor-
age for longer than a year or two
years, as a rule, the secretary declar-
ed that his investigation showed thal
"receipts into cold storage are en
tirely or very nearly exhausted by the
deliveries out of cold storage withia
ten months.
Long'storage is the exception, th«
secretary asserts. Warehousemen ex
plained to the department that exces
sively long storage was due to law-
suits and other circumstances of an
uncommercial nature. The cost ol
storage. Including storage charge, in
support of the entire committee and
the measure probably will be reported terwrt and insurance is considered a*
back to the house with the recommen-
dation for favorable action before Sat-
90CIALIST CANDIDATE
LOSES IN LOS ANGELES
urday.
Tbe measure involves 50,000 acres
of land which will be made subject to
taxation as soon as sold and is worth
several million dollars. Senator La-
Follette will fight any attempt to sell
tbe mineral rights to the lands, and
for that reason the bill to be present-
ed U> congress will provide only for
the disposal of the surface lands which
are now untaxed and uncultivated.
a barrier to very long storage.
Cold storage, the secretary reports,
has raised the cost of living by in-
creasing the annual price level for but
ter and eggs.
SHAKE?
Oxidine is not only
the quickest, safest, and
surest remedy for Chills
and Fever, but a most
dependable tonic in all
malarial diseases.
A liver tonic—a kid-
ney tonic—a stomach
tonic—a bowel tonic.
If a system-cleansing
tonic is needed, just try
OXIDINE
—a bottle proves.
The specific for Malaria, Chills
and Fever and all diseases
due to disordered kid.
neys, liver, stomach
and bowels.
fOt. At Your Druggist*
Biaini mro os.,
Wsco. Tezss.
WILL START MOVEMENT
TO AMEND MARRIAGE LAW8
Pelt its Lye Salve
JAMES AND JOHN McNAMARA
SENTENCED BY COURT
First Named Given Life Sentence
and Last Named Sent up for
Fourteen Years
Job Hsrrfman Defeated by Geo. Alex-
ander, and Entire Good Govern,
mint Ticket ie Elected
Los Angeles.—Complete returns
from 316 out of 317 precincts in the
municipal election gave Oeo. Alexan-
became the property of the Individual (jBpi incumbent, candidate of the good
Indian, being conveyed to the allottee government league, for mayor, 83,978
by the Joint act of the Indian and the votes, and Job Harriman, socialiat, 62,-
government. j 293. The two missing precincts In the
While In a strict and technical | Buburhs bad a registration of 1500 and
sense the possessory title of the in- j ar„ expected to run about even bs-
dlans was by this legislation extin-
guished, the United Staten waa not
the beneficiary. No provision of the
law vested In the government the unit-
ed title of Itself and the Indiana. The
tranaaction wus directly the opposite
The government divested Itself of
whatever title It possessed and by
united conveyance merged the leaser
and the greater estate in the allottee
Tbe Indian title waa only extinguish-
ed In the same sense that the Indian
acquired tbe outstanding title of the
government, and by this act merged
u possessory right into a fee simple
The Indian continued In possession
tween Alexander and Harriman.
The entire good government ticket
was elected. No socialist candidate
for any office came within 25,000 votes
of winning Prohibition was defeated,
there being 31,691 votes for It and 87,-
344 against. Mnny women voted
against ttie measure.
Promise* Home Rule
tendon.—Premier Asquith announc-
ed In the house of commons that the
government would use all the constitu-
tional means at Its disposal to pass a
home rule hill for Ireland during the
life time of the present parllamenL
I xjs Angeles—James Boyd McNa-
mara and John J. McNamar, brothers,
natives of Cincinnati, Ohio, felt the
strong hand of justice. James B. Mc-
Namara was sentenced to imprison-
ment for life for murder committed
in dynamiting the Los Angeles Times
building and killing twenty-one per-
sons, and his brother to fifteen years
in the penitentiary for blowing up the
Llewellyn Iron works.
It was tbe retaliatory execution of
the law against those lawless methods
which John J McNamara, secretary
and treasurer of the International
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers,
pursued in tightlug employers who
kept "open shops ’’
To Fortify Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica.—When Sir Sid-
ney Oliver, governor of Jamaica, vis-
ited the Panama canal tone, he was
accompanied by Colonel Wyndham, a
military expert, who is the governor's
private secretary. It is learned that
Lieutenant Colonel Wyndham will
make a report of his inspection of the
canal which is likely to have an im-
portant bearing on the proposed ex-
tension of fortifications at Jamaica
Topeka^ Kan—The probate judges
of Kansas are going to ask extensive
amendments to the marriage laws of
Kansas to try to prever^ the mar-
riages of the “unfit.”
It will be necessary for the man and
woman who wish to marry to 37g'n "a
declaration of intentions” and file it
with the probate judge two weeks be-
fore the wedding takes place. In ad-
dition to this, it will require that the
notice of the wedding be published
two weeks before the wedding is per-
formed.
If after the notice of the proposed
wedding is published, anyone has any
reason why the couple should not
marry he will have the right to file
such with the probate judge, and
upon an investigation, the judge may
hold up the license. He may refuse
the couple the right to marry.
FOR ALL
SORE EYES
BEEF BARONS NOW AT
BAR OF STERN JUSTICE
HIS VOCATION.
After Eight Year* of Fighting and
Bickering Government Forces
Them To Trial
Chicago—After eight years devious
travel in the ways of grand juries and
special pleas, the cases of ten Chi-
cago meat packers indicted for alleg-
ed violation of the criminal provis-
ions of the Sherinan anti-trust law
reached trial Wednesday. Indications
were that the early stages of the trial
at least would be rapid, for the goy-
renment's examination of the first
panel of Jurymen was brief.
“I suppose you’ll be an agricultur-
ist when you grow up?”
“No’m. I’m Jest goin’ to work oa
this farm, that’s all.”
By Way of Excuse.
“Youngleigh has some singular
Ideas.”
“What, for instance?”
“Well, he says It is mean to profit
by other people's experience after
they've been at all the trouble and
expense of collecting IL”
Our idea of nothing to beat Is ths
fellow who brags that he begins
where we leave off!
W. 8, Watson, a farmer near
Muskogee got an agricultural Idea
last summer that beats the ordinary
rotation Idea by several lapa. Watson
planted twenty-eight ucres of cotton,
lie also hatchwd out a drove of 20G
young turkeys. When the turkeys
were large enough to tuk# rare of
themselves h« turned them Into the
cotton field and kept them there. The
turkeys cleaned up every sort of In-
sect and made their own living.
When the cotton and the turkeys
were ready to plckV Watson found that
his cotton was better than any of his
neighbors. He sold $760 worth of cot
Ion and $200 worth of turkeys. The
turkeys had added severs! hundred
dollars to the value of I he cotton crop
•nd the cotton had made $200 worth
of turkeys.
Hhawneo flcotchmen have Issued an
Invitation to persons of Hcotch do
■cent In the state to be their gueats
at 11 Hcotch supper and concert and
dance to be given hero on January
26, Bobble Burns' birthday. Two pip
ers will be secured to furnish the
music.
W. L. Knight and Jack Prosser,
Tulsa, who together have Invented
morn labor and tlmesavlng devices
for use In the oil Industry than any
other nton In the world, have Intro-
duced another Invention which they
claim will shorten the time of drilling
oil wells and revolutionise the oil
business. Mr. Knight Is In the east
with 1 In- models, plans aid descrip-
tions of the contrivance and will he
back In Tulsa soon. The Invention
calls for the use of steel cables for
drilling purposes Instead of tin* cluin
■y rope* now used.
Arguing Big Principle
Washington, D. <!.—The right of the
■ tstea to penalize railroads for refus-
ing to receive goods for shipment In
Interstate commerce wns argued be-
fore the supreme court of the United
Slates. The quest Ion presented to the
court concerned particularly the state
of North Carolina, A direct allHck
was being made on the constitution-
ality of the statute, enacted In 1906,
In that state, Imposing a penalty of $60
a day on u railroad for avory day It re-
fused to accept goods for transporta-
tion. The principle Involved was be-
fore the court In two different cases
In both ense* the defendant was the
Southern Railway company.
Lockout Ended
Berlin.—The lockout of metal work
ers which began on November 30 and
■ffocted between 60,000 and 60,000 men
la ended. A majority of the strikers
were opposed to the compromise
drawn up Tuesday, but as a two thirds
majority Is required to reject compro-
mise proposals, and this majority wus
not obtained, 1 ho lockout ended.
Movement of Army
Mantis, l*. f —The fifteenth Infantry
has landed and been ordered lo pro-
ceed to Fort William McKinley It
Is believed tin* slay Ihoro will be only
tmporory.
Two Ola In Wreck
llolenn, Os. Knglneer It II Rake-
straw and Fireman Hutton, both of
Macon, were killed and a scorn of
passengers were Injured when Houth
ern railway passenger train No. 1 was
derailed near here.
Texas Cattle Win Prixe
Chicago.—First prize for the best
carload of cattle exhibited at tbe in-
ternational stock show here wns won
bv Captain H. S Burnett of Fort
Worth, Texas He won first In Short-
horns. Herefords and special classea.
in the exhibition for the first time
since the stock show bscnme an annu-
al event, the western stock took the
prises In the cattle classes Ohio won
the largest number of blue ribbons
Canada carried off the highest sheep
honors ami got markings on Hhorthorn
callle exhibits.
Will Get Every Man
Indianapolis, I rid -''An earnest ef-
fort will be tnado by the government
to bring to Justice every man who waa
Involved In the most daniiiHhle con-
spiracy ever entered Into In this coun-
try,” said United Htatea District At
torney Chaa W. Miller, In dlscusalng
the federal grand Jury's Investigation
of dynamiting operations of the Me
Nnmara brothers and others alleged to
have bean associated with them.
Major Moors Is Dead
Texarkana, Ark.—C. II Moore, for-
mer attorney general of Arkansas,
died here, aged 711 He was a major In
the confederate army tine of his chil-
dren la Mra. Vain Hicks, of Han Anto-
nio.
Dlow-up Kills Two
Ht. Petersburg. Two employes were
killed and forty Injured by n gne ex
| plosion In the gold testing department
of the Imperial mint. The whole plant
was destroyed uud the building seri-
ously damaged
Baby Rescued by Sister
Schrtever, La.—Kept afloat by •
heavy plush cloak until his baby sis-
ter could give tbe alarm, the 4-year
old son of Henry Duigle was rescued
from Bayou Terrebonne. The boy’s
mother rushed up and leaped Into five
feet of water and saved him
Interstate Commerce Commleeloner
Washington.—President Taft will
tend to the senate the name of James
8 Harlan, Interstate commerco com-
missioner, to continue In the position
Mr. Harlnn, who Is a son of the late
Judge Harlan of the supreme court,
will be renominated for a seven year
term.
James B. McNamara Sued
Los Angela -James B. McNamara,
under sentence of life Imprisonment,
hHd other troubles udtled to his lot
when he became defendant In a $-r><V
000 damage suit. The suit Is brought
by Louise M Hswyer, widow of Rob-
ert L Hawyer, a telegraph operator
employed by the Los Angeles Times
end killed In flio explosion which
wrecked the' building Octobor 1, 1910
Get Postal Banks
Washington. D. C —The third class
post offices, Fort Cobb, Roosevelt and
Valllunt. Okln , today were designat-
ed depositories of the postal saving
accounts, by the postofflee department.
England Blocks Persia
Ixtndon —The British government
has blocked any Intention that Persia
has had of reinstating in power the ox-
shnh of Persia, Mohammed All Mlrzs,
by Informing the cabinet In Ht Peters-
burg that It Is Impossible for tCngl*nd
to recognlae him.
Kentucky Woman Slain
Louisville, Ky.—Word was received
here of the aenaatlonal killing In
Larue county of Mra. William K. Al-
len, wife of a conductor employed by
the Louisville Railway company, by
Alex Brewer, a prosperous farmer of
the Otter creek section, where the !
killing occurred Brewer fled after
shooting the woman through the heart
and a posse Is now on his trail.
Reward le Ready
Sacramento, Cal—Regarding the
payment to Detective William J
Burns of the $10,000 reward offered
by the stnte for the capture of the l.oe
Angeles Times dynamiters, Spenker
Hewitt of the state legislature said;
“The money will be pnld the moment
the Identity of the person entitled to
It Is approved to my satisfaction ”
Asks Quarter from Each
New Orleans ^Twenty-five cents *
week wns asked of each union man In
this city at n meeting of the Cenirnl
Trades and Labor Council lo aid the
strike of thn federation member*
against the Harriman lines
Bryan Glv** Lecture
Kingston, Jamaica.— William J Bry-
an attended an agricultural fair In the
central part of the Island as the gov-
ernor's guest. Mr. Bryan has nr
ranged to deliver two public lectures
In Kingston before proceeding lo Pan
■ma.
New Balloon Record
Purls.—The military dirigible bal-
loon Adjutant broke the world's nltl-
tude record for dirigibles, ascemllo|
lo S height of 7,3'i2 fuel.
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