Muskogee Daily Phoenix (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 110, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 28, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 4.
Hl'SKOeEB. INDIAN TERRITORY, WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 28 1!W
NUMBER 110
Muskogee Title and Trust Co.
GENERAL BANKING.
REPORT
DAWES
OF THE
COMMISSION
Special Attention to
Savings Accounts, Insurance
and Abstracts.
Our Real Estate Department is conducted with the
conservatism essential to safe investments.
We invite the business of the newcomer, and hope to
continue the pleasant business relations with our pioneer
patrons.
APPLICATIONS OF MOKE THAN 200,000
CITIZENS HAVE BEEN EXAMINED
FOR EN HO LLM ENT.
Muskogee Title and Trust Co.
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90,000 OF THIS NUMBER GET RIGHTS
Commission Has Appraised ami Classified
Nearly 500,000 Tracts of Land—Com-
mission Recommends Provision for
Hearing' of Contests for the
Cherokees and Seminoles.
CANDIES FOR THE
HOLIDAYS
Pure home-made receipts from
the best European kitchens
used by our skilled candy-
makers.
Greek Candy Kitchen
107 North Main.
Special to the Phoenix. | gruRy of the law as set out unTfcr the
Washington, D. C., Dec. 27. The head 0f legislation The details of
report of the Dawes Commission has
been made public by order of the
Secretary of the Interior. The re-
port is a very voluminous one as it is
the work performed in each separate
tribe will be briefly reviewed.
"Allotments were made during the
year to 02 4 citizens and freedmen ot
the last annual report that will be the Creek Nation Of this number.
submitted by the Commission. The
Commission states that it has exam-
ined the applications of more than
however, 348 were made arbitrarily
by the Commission, 46 being made to
the heirs of deceased citizens. All
200,000 citizens for enrollment, only others were made upon personal ap-
about 90,000 of wnich will be Anally J plication of the allottees or their au-
adjudged to lawfully possess tribal , thorlzed representatives.
membership and property rights. "Complete allotments have now
The Commission has appraised and been made to 15,178 citizens of the
classified nearly 1500,000 tracts of J Creek nation. Sixty-three have se-
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BABSAIM STORE
OF MUSKOGEE
land.
The Commission calls attention to
the fact that all allotments selected
after the first quarter of the year
ehding .lune 20th, 1905, will be sub-
ject to contest after the time fixed
for the establishment of the Com-
mission. The Commission recom-
mends that some provision be made
for the hearing of these contests and
also for the disposal of unallotted
lands in the Seminole Nation as well
as in the Cherokee Nation.
In the Creek Nation 156,1139 ap-
plicants have been enrolled, 547 ap-
plications for enrollment have been
rejected and there are now undeter-
mined 104 2. In the Cherokee Na-
tion, 35,450 applications for enroll-
ment have been favorably enacted
upon, 7B68 have been denied and
9400 remain undertermined. In the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, 33,-
220 applications for enrollment have
been approved, 21,832 have been re-
lected a portion of their allotments,
while only 117 enrolled citizens have,
at the close of the year, failed to
make ^election of any part of their
allotments, notwithstanding about
700 names have been added to the
final rolls of Creek citizens during the
year. Of the completed allotments,
only 175 have no homestead reserva-
tion set apart, the Commission hav-
ing arbitrarily designated the home-
stead in cases where the allottee him-
self failed to do so within a reason-
able time.
"Six reservations for school and J representing an
church purposes were made during iVp,uaximatly $10,000,000
or partial allotments making a total,
since the beginning of the work of
allotment in the Cherokee nation, of
6,34 7 persons, representing 13,341
allottees, who have appeared before
the commission and made selection
and claims for 17,273 allotments or
partial allotments.
"Of the 7,194 selections and claims
made during the past fiscal year,
2,972 were held up because the land
applied for had been previously
selected by other citizens, because the
right to enrollment of the applicants
had not been finally determined by
the Secretary of the Interior or for
other reasons. Since the opening of
the Cherokee land office on January
1, 1902, 6,299 selections and claims
have been held up at the time they
were submitted.
"Practically all of the applications
held up at the time they were sub-
mitted have, however, subsequently
been adjusted and certificates issued
therefor, except approximately 1,000
claims made to land previously filed
on, and approximately 1,500 claims
by applicants for enrollment whose
rights have not been determined. A
large majority of this latter class are
claimants as intermarried whites.
"Up to and including "June 30,
1904, 1,260,408.78 acres of land of
the value of $4,291,095.35 have been
selected and claimed. There are in
the Cherokee nation 4,420,067.73
acres of land. It is estimated that
land reserved from allotment for
town sites, railroad rights or way,
national schools, missions, asylums,
etc., neighborhood cemeteries, and
neighborhood churches will deduct
from the allottable lands of the Cher-
okee nation something more than
20,000 acres, leaving subject to al-
lotment approximately 4,400,000
acres. It will be seen, therefore, that
there are, in round numbers, yet to
be allotted 2,739,500 acres of land In
the Cherokee nation, valued at $8,-
107,820.03.
"During the year ended June 30,
1^04, 14,4)95 applications for allot-
ments were made at the Chickasaw
land office, at Tishomingo, Indian
Territory. The land embraced in
these allotments has an aggregate
area of 2,001,216.94 acres.
"Since the establishment of the
Chickasaw land office, April 15, 1903,
15,429 allotments have been made
embracing 2,340,315.96 acres, and
appraised value of
During
RAGING STORM
IN THE NORTH
STORM IS MOST WIDESPREAD
OK AN\ 1)1 It I N 4 j PANT FIF-
TKKN YEARS.
MANY RAILROADS ARE CRIPPLED
Telegraph and Telephone Companies
Affected'—Street Car Service at
Standstill In Cities of North
and West States.
the year, making a total of 110, such
reservations In the Creek Nation in-
cluding those respecially provided for
by the Creek agreement.
"The land allotted during the ye^r
represents an aggregate area of 34,-
690.03 acres. Of the 3,063,774.78
acres of allottable land in the Creek
Nation, there Is still unallotted ap-
the year 19,650 allotment certificates
were prepared, 7,700 of which repre-
sent the homesteads, while 3,200 rep-
resent selections made by freedmen.
The majority of these certificates
have been checked with the allotment
records, have received the signature
of the chairman, and been delivered
to the allottees."
(By Assoc'ated Press.)
Chicago, III., Dec. 27. -One of the
most severe storms of recent years
has raged throughout the territory
lying between the Rocky mountains
and the Great Lakes since early tills
morning, and has caused much trou-
ble to street car companies, rail-
roads, telegraph and telephone com-
panies.
The latter were the heaviest suf-
ferers, for the blizzard which swept
througn the West and Northwest
during the last 2 4 hours was pre-
ceded by u heavy fog and drizzling
raiu, which made the wires almost
unworkable.
The intense cold and a terrific gale
that followed close upon the fog
coated the wires with ice, and later
in the day threw the poles to the
ground, crippling the companies bad-
ly. sni
Railroad trains were badly delay-
ed all through the West, some of
them being 24 hours late. Street
car traffic In all cities of the
West and Southwest was practically
at a standstill at some time during
the day.
In Its extent the storm was the
most widespread of any during the
last fifteen years. Counting the fog
as a component part of the storm, it
stretched from the Rocky mountains
to New York and from Winnipeg io
New Orleans.
The only fatalities due to the
storm in this city were;
Alexander Steiner, teamster, kill-
ed while unloading coal; Thomas
Walsh, laborer, struck by a heavy
board while entering a new building.
At 10 o'clock tonight the storm
was reported as subsiding at Kansas
City and other points, and the north
and south lines from that city, but
it will be several days before normal
conditions are restored throughout
the entire section.
.HIHJMENT IN DEFAULT.
KNIGHTS
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jected and 5,567 remain to be enact- proximately 640,000 acres. This area
ed upon. The total approved rolls of will be somewhat reduced by the al-
the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and lottment of land to those who are
Chickasaw Nations thus far aggre- hereafter placed upon the final roll. |Former President Sam Condemned to
gates 83,999 members of the tribes. I Exhibit No. 3 shows the status of al- j Imprisonment for Life—Wife
Ninety per cent of the work of en- lotment in the Creek Nation at the j 15 Years.
rollment has been completed. In , close of the year. Associated Press.)
discussing the question of the allot-1 "Approximately, 12,000 allotment | port Au Prince Haytt, Dec. 27.—
ment of land of the four nations the and homestead deeds have been pre-1 ^ rendered judgment ln
Commission says i pared during the year, which brings
"The bulk of the Commission's la- this work, as nearly as practicable, default condemning former President
bor during the past fiscal year has up to the actual allotment. About j Sam to imprisonment for life at hard
been in connection of the allotment t 1,400 allotments have been made for |labor for the alleged Issue of fraudu-
Madame Sam Is sen-
tenced to fifteen years' imprisonment
and several njembers of Sam's min-
istery and other high functionaries
have been condemned to terms of
imprisonment ranging from five to
fifteen years. The Judgment in de-
of the lands of the Choctaws, Chick- | which deeds have not yet been is- j lent bonds
asaws and Cherokees. A land office ; SUed, the same being withheld for tanroit to fl
was maintained in each of the four ; various causes, such as contests, un-
greater nations, viz. Choctaw, Chick- j completed allotment selections, etc.
asaw, Cherokee and Creek. In the. - \ total of 28,982 allotmenyand
Creek tribe allotment was practically • homestead deeds have been executed
finished before the beginning of the 1 by the principal chief of the Cree*
year but so long as t&e work of en- j nation and approvd by the Secretary | fault is the form usual under legal
rollment continued it was necessary 1 0f the Interior. Of this number,
to maintain a land office in that na- ! 27,9 81 have been recorded in the
tion in order that persons enrolled | office of the commission, as provided
from time to time could have an op- | by law, and transmitted to the prin-
portunity of selecting their allot- j Cipal chief for delivery to the allot-
ments. In the Choctaw, Chickasaw, | tees The remaining 1,001 await the
proceedings in France and some oth-
er countries where the person con-
victed is out of the jurisdiction of
the court. At latest advices Presi-
dent Sam was living ln the Island of
St. Thomas, Dutch West India.
Chicago, 111., Dec. 28. Late re-
ports from Wisconsin are that the
storm was the most severe ever
known ln that section of the coun-
try. The damage In the city of Madi-
son is estimated at $100,000, and it
is thought that the estimate is small
for all damage when the storm
abates.
La Crosse, Wis., and other cities
in that section of the country report
conditions similar to those in Madi-
son. In Indiana the damage by
storm is estimated at hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The damage
was specially heavy in the oil fields,
where fully 100 derricks were blown
down and all operations suspended
near Muncle. Frank Cavanaugh
was killed by a falling derrick. The
loss on derricks alone in the neigh-
borhood of Muncle is placed at $200,-
000.
COAL, WOOD AHD SAHD.
$4.00 per cord, delivered. Jenny Lind and Greenwood Coal.
...FARLEY'S...
Telephone 436. W. Okmulgee and Times St.
J. L. DICKKY
President.
J. M. Brooan
Secretary and Treasurer.
D. G. Wilson
Assistant Secretary
ON
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Midland Abstract Co.,
INCORPORATED
107 North Second Street.
MUSKOGEE. IND. TER
and Cherokee natiflns the allotment
work, which was only well begun
PHOENIX THREE .6 .6 . 66..
when the Commission made its last
annual report, is now rapidly nearlng
completion. Notwithstanding that
the work of allotment In the Chero-
kee Nation was suspended during
more than half of the y«ar and a vast
amount of unexpected work has de-
veloped upon the Conmlsslon, es-
pecially with respect to the allot-
ment of land to the Delaware-Chero-
kees, It Is still believed that the work
will have been substantially com-
pleted by July 1, 1905. As to allot-
ment contests, however, this will not
he practicable, In view of the incon-
process of record or are withheld
from delivery for various causes.
"The total number of allottees in
this nation will be approximately,
40,000, and the amount of average
land coming to each allottee is 110
acres, except as to the registered
Delawares, who are entitled to take
160 acres of land without regard to
the appraised value.
"In the five months and six days
within which selections and claims of
allotments in the Cherokee nation
were received during the past fiscal
year 2,626 persons, representing
5,191 allottees, have appeared at the
Cherokee land office and made 7,194
selections and claims of allotment!
Snow Storm Believed to lit' Over.
(By Associated Press )
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 27.—Fore-
caster ^onnor stated tonight that
the snow storm 4s over, but that the
TOM WATSON'S MAGAZINE.
(By Associated Press.)
Albany, N. Y., Dec. 27. Thomas , temperature will go down to zero or
E. Watson, of Thompson, Gdorgiu
candidate of the People's party for
president in the last election, has in-
corporated with the secretary of state
a stock company called "Tom Wat-
son's Magazine," for the purpose of
publishing and circulating monthly
literature in a periodical of that
name. The corporation is capitalized
at $125,000.
Mr. Ludwig, vice president ot the
Canadian Valley Trust company, Is
ln the city.
lower before morning. At 9 o'clock
the thermometer registered 8 de-
grees above zero. Cars are running
on all street car lines tonight. Be-
lated trains are arriving at the union
station from all directions.
A JAUNT TO CORRETA.
The Kansas City Journal's corre-
spondents, In their special car, La-
cona, accompanied by a number of
local people, wore taken to Corrtta
and return yesterday morning over
the Muskogee Union.
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