Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 5, 1895 Page: 4 of 8
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CLEVELAND BOSS, CARLISLE
LACKEY.
Secretary Carlisle now knows what
decision Mr. Cleveland and his Wall
street advisers have arrived at con-
cerning government finances and an-
other issue of bonds. On Saturday be
I was telegraphed for by Mr. Cleveland.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF OKLAHOMA.
and. although he had to break several
important engagements to do so, he
The State Capital.
By the State Capital Printing Co.
FRANK. M. (iRFFR, Editor.
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need elixir. They sputter and go out
and on, and seem to be in a continuous
aught the first train from Washing struggle to keep in sight. If Mr.
ton. Some people might not consider j^rovvn fix his plant up h will
it proper or dignified for the secretary slamj a much better chance to get a
of the treasury of the I'nited States to j contracl out of the city. It should be
l e hurriedly called upon to travel Qut of that hole, new globes put
several hundred miies in order to as- on^ pQjes raised and made a first-
1 certain what the treasury department j clasg p]ant. Then the city will find
was going to do, but Mr. ( arlisle, if he . Mm(lthing worth contracting for.
SH3BSSSSHEHSHBH5HH—
treatment, has at least to grin and Fbekman E. Miller, of the Agricul-
bear it. as it is about the only kind he 1 tural and Mechanical college of Okla-
gets from Mr. Cleveland. When the ' homa, has a charming story in the St.
la.^t bond issue was determined upon Louis Magazine for September. It is
AS IS'DIAS MIXTURE
Judge Burford decided a peculiar
torv. It is expected that it will act on j case at El Reno. If it is sustained in
the Cuban matter—and at the usual ; the higher courts the autonomy of In-
gait of that body, the revolution will jian ownership will be entirely
be very ancient before it doe-* any- changed. Heretofore the children cf
I the "squaw man" have been counted j unionism, there
. ' legally as Indians. Burford holds j spicuously the
Some of the arch lights in Out.irie that a white man,being a United States
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HTln re; nesting a chai ge of Post office Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle were titled "Truck 1'atch Joe," and is based
address aliways give the name of the t>oth in Washington, but Mr. Carlisle on the romance of an Oklahoma claim
Postoffice to which trie paper has been ,lidn't ^noNV anything about it until j holder. It is full of pathos and touch-
•ent;otherwise their may be adeiay in aftcp mem\yer the syndicate which ing incidents in the many struggles of
making the charge. negotiated the deal with Mr. Cleve- those pioneers who came to Oklahoma
Sample copies sent free. ! land got back to New York and was to recoup old or create new fortunes.
CJT"Liberal inducements to Postmast
•rs and Club Agents.
IMPORTANT NOTICE-
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paper, but at the same time are re-
ceiving it occasionally or regularly,
it is because some friend has paid for
it and ordered it sent to you, with the
hope that you may find something in
it that will interest and benefit you.
H will be discontinued at the expira-
tion of the time for which it has been
paid. This statement is made so that
you will know that you will not be
expected to pay for it.
interviewed for a newspaper. So it is This paper will publish the story soon,
not probable that he was surprised to ! as one of the best which has come from
be summoned to Buzzard's Hay to learn the novel p«-n of Oklahoma.
ust d
The cotton gins of eastern Oklahoma
ure humming now; night and day.
And now they say Hill has turned
against Tammany. The devil fallen
out with himself? Well, hardly.
Providence was a little late in find-
ing us this year—but he held oft* the
rain until the cotton was safe, any-
how
j what h
Treasury officials have been a little
' easier in mind during the last few
days, as there has been less demand
for gold for export, but they know
that inorq money must be had from
somewhere sooner or later, even if not
another dollar in gold is sent to Eur-
ope for a year. The receipts of the
government arc way below its expendi-
tures and it is only a queetion of time
when the gold reserve will hav*. to be
encroached upon to meet the govern-
ment's current expenses, as this ad-
listration has already had to do, un-
less congress comes to the rescue by
providing for more revenue. This the
republican congress will be glad to do,
but it is not so certain that its method
of doing it will be acceptable to Mr.
Cleveland, as the revenue will be pro-
vided for by tariff revision along the
lines of republican protection for
American industries.
When you see a bale of cotton
think that there is $37.50 clear cash in
it, and tip your hai, if you are liberal
enough to forget that a darkey sits on
it.
Oklahoma should and will be heard
in that Topeka deep water convention
It is a good time to remind Texas of
the contemptible treatment it has al-
ways given us, in congress.
Earthen Oklahoma in its cotton cul-
ture is ahead of western Oklahoma,
which has not yet tried it. Every
county in Oklahoma should plant cot
ton. It is our best cash crop.
The evidence of crime revealed by a
perusal of the daily papers, proves
that the eastern fellows can't mak
prosperity by lurid declarations that
"times are rapidly picking up."
citizen, when he marries a squaw does
not change his citizenship and he be-
ing legally the head of the family he
cannot turn out papooses; the products
are all United States citizens and en-
titled to no tribal allotments, annuties
or other rights. This a hard blow at
the "squaw man" and his progeny,
financially.
At the time of the opening of Okla-
homa to settlement the Keith boys,
who claim to be Indians by some blood
adoption and tribal affiliation, took al-
lotments in Oklahoma proper some
miles east of El Reno. Their rights
were undisputed until after the open-
ing of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
country. The commission, it will be
remembered, had 6ome difficulty in
securing the legally required number
of names. Among other supposed In-
dians by white fathers and adoption
the Keith boys signed the treaty which
gave the commission only one more
name than the legally required nuin-
The treat, although opposed by
DUKE
Cigarettes
The Orlando Herald concludes the
populist party in the last throes of ber.
permanent decay. Atherton, Sturgis, a supposed minority, was ratified by
Cassidy and Whitwam, that party's congress, the country was ooened to
real leaders in the past, tried to re- settlement by proclamation and the
form their party and got expurgated ! public furnished with the numbers of
PROFIT.
There is great profit in such agri-
ultural meetings as that at Island
park Wednesday. The display was in
itself a revelation of the fruitfalness
of this so-called "hard" year. There
were obese pumpkins, huge field, kailir
and broom corn, fruits to make the
mouth water and sweet and Irish po-
tatoes of great proportions. The
speeches ware full of good sense and
needed information. Prof. Morrow,
the president of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college, made a most in
structive and encouraging address on
"Agricultural Organizations,' showing
the value of agrarian association; the
coining together of the soil tillers in
an exchange of experiences and ideas
Prof. Boyd, of the University, was
enthusiastic in his address on "Educa-
tion in the Country." He showed that
the great men in all the professions
ame from the farm—where they were
given enduring frames by rugged,
manly toil; that what education they
for their pains. The Herald rightly
sizes up the situation, as follows:
Since Vincent is to be investigated
for over charges for county printing.
Sturgis and Atherton fired from the
populist party, Cassidy and Whitwam
knocked out of time, and Laverty re-
quested to dig up, misappropriated
funds, would it seem strange if Logan
county is finally free from populistic
influences and' the party demoralized
to such an extent that its future career
'forlorn hope," a premeditated
failure and uncertainty.
Judge Hikhek. in a mandamus case
lands alloted to the Indians, among
which were the names of the Keith
boys.
Their allotments in old Oklahoma
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were contested upon the ground that ( it by the shores of that peaceful lak
they were not entitled to double allot- | whose
ments.
got into court and last week was tried
PECK'S SOUTHERN TRIBUTE.
Just now, when the soldiery south
and north are mingling in brotherly
intercourse at exposition and on bat-
tlefield. and the orator is eloquent in
purlicg thoughts of magnanimity and
comes up con-
ecent utterance
of a northern civilian at the
anniversary of the University of Vir-
ginia. The oration of George R. Peck
on that occasion will live among the
gems of American oratory The senti-
ment is no more superb than the lan-
guage and the diction. Lincoln, in his
Gettysburg address, or Everetts on the
same occasion none of our national
oratorical standards,have been higher.
Of the New South, Mr. Peck most
beautifully said:
"We have heard much of the New
South We have waited for it as for
the dawn. We have dreamed of a day
when there should be a new life in
your mountains, and the sound of en-
terprise by your rivers; of a day
when a thousand wheels should be
turning to give the world the wealth
of southern fields and of southern in-
dustry. Your own orators—your
Gradys and your Wattersons have
announced its coining The}' have
pointed you to a land of promise. , The few free silver officeholders
And yet I. for one, could never see | have put padlocks on their minds in
the new south in the mills of Birming- , , ,
ham. nor in the Iron mines of Ala- order to keep from thinking aloud.
bama, nor in the coal mines of Ten- ^ ; t~t. . ,
nessee. These are important factors. Clahkk is delivering a lecture on
but the new south can never rest on a "Six Years in Congress. Sid is always
commercial basis Iron and coal and ; reminescent. He lives but little in the
cotton are powerful agencies, but no ; Dresent
people were ever greatly moved by 1
monetary considerations alone. They , Cuba, since the Oklahoma "geese"
help a the tea helped the Revolution; hunterB have not gone to it8 aid, has
thev are means, but not motives or in- , , , ,, , .
spirations concluded to take care of itself, ana is
"Gentlemen. I have seen the new ] doing it vigorously.
south. Hut I saw it not by the Poto- -
mac, nor by the Cumberland. I saw j The New York State democracy will
not play in the
Burford holding that the Keith boys
were citizens of the United States and
could not become Indians through tri-
bal relations, adoption, or by an In-
dian mother and a white father, that a
. white man was a citizen of the United
to compel the city treasurer at 1 err} . ^tates an(j jjis children naturally so—
to receive city scrip for saloon license, i 0^er Words a man is the head of the
decided that warranto can be paid only | fam.l ndlfan ,ndian the children
in order of registration as provided by
law. This is a queer decision. Ac-
cording to this no kind of taxes can be
paid in warrants unless the warrant
happen to be payable, as shown by
the registration book. The judges all
over the territory have decided that
warrants of any date can be paid on
general taxes, for taxes due to the
fund on which the warrant is drawn,
and the law plainly says so. It seems
strange that saloon taxes are not in
the same category, though the law
does not specifically say so.
Mil. Curtis is* one of the assistant
secretaries of the treasury. He is also
one of the maddest men in Washing-
ton, but he isn't mad enough to resign
Will the Oklahoma mills please
make some of that.kaffir flour? We all
want to try it. It can easily be made
a fad and there is big money in fads
to the manufacturer and producer.
Col. S. N. Porter says, at Independ-
ence, Kansas, that tlie Oklahoma 'en-
tral will be built soon. This has been
heard before, but is just as sweet mu-
sic as ever. Railroad hope is always
18-carat.
The English aristocracy are just
now showing marked attention to
American visitors Of course. They
would be ungrateful dogs not to. Is
not America now doing everything
England wants done ?
Harti k, of the Newkirk Democrat,
calls on the farmers, double-leaded, to
send him money to place in a fund to
fire the boodlers. <>f course, Harter
means the old democratic boodlers, one
of whom Harter was This donation
of money to a bocdler to tire boodlers
is a new thing
are Indians, though their mother may
be white, and if the father be white
and a citizen, though the mother be-
long to some other race, the children
are citizens of the United States.
Now the settlers in the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe country are confronted
with the complex question: does the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe country be-
long to the Indians or is the treaty
valid?
It is a well known fact that some of
the Indians have refused to take any
money for the supposed purchase of
their interest in the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe country. If the Keiths are
white men and the higher courts
I should hold with Judge Burford. then
the contract between the Indians and
the government is invalid, the Keith's
signatures being required as Indians to
the contract to make it legal.
There would seem to be some trouble
attached to his office, and, barring ac.
cidents, he expects to continue drawing
it until March 1th, 181)7. Mr. Curtis'
pet halucination, which, by the way, ,
. . , i ahead for the Cheyenne country. And
isn't shared by anyone else, is that he *
, * . • .. , . yet the most part of the purchase
is a great financier. During the last J r . r
* ^ ... .. i ... ' money has been received by the In-
Curtis was in New \ork flit- J J
dians and spent. Had they refused
money and gone to law the case
might be different, but the Indians
I i
week Mr.
ting about among the members of the ^
bond syndicate and other big bankers I ie
waters are broad enough to,
^ the world, and
deep enough to bury in its bosom all an(^ th©y bolted.
Tammany back yard;
bolt with them—
the sorrows and all the hatred of the j
past I saw the new south with her I Somerodv ought to reconstruct ( ov.
helmet on, bowing to the august pres- ernor Turney. He doesn't know the
ent. She had not forgotten the past, i war over an(j the thing the South
but was bravely giving herself to a ; f ht f • , d
welcoming future. The monument ^ '
which marks the tomb of the Coufed- .. — . . . . - 4l
erate dead at Oakwoods was raised Matt ^l AV 18 ln tnm for the Da"
almost entirely by them who fought tional chairmanship again, and this
against them. When it was dedi- with the right candidate nresages cer-
ated. north and south marched to- tain republican victory.
gether in streets thronged, not with
enemies, but friends. Remembering
our heroic dead, we reverently uncov-
ered while you gave tears and flowers
to yours The new south stood in
line with the new north: and above
them both towered a form, brave,
puissant and serene, free. It was the
new nation.''
Peck is one of the nation's great or-
ators and great men and he is a western ;
product. His reputation as an orator :
has been fixed since his Lincoln club
England bulls the gofd market—for
the benefit of England, and Ameri-
cans bull the duke market—for the
benefit of the same country.
H. 11. Holmes, after being convicted
of a dozen murders, by the detectives,
is to have a trial on October 28—and
will probably thereafter go iree.
Like .lay Cooke in 180u, Mr. Cleve-
banquet speech in Chicago and his uni- land thinks "a public debt is a public
versity of Virginia oration, one of the blessing," and Cleveland has the same
many gems of which we give above
personal interest Cooke had in creat-
i in? it.
The farmers themselves are solving
the seed wheat problem by skirmiish-
, " , ! ing up the cash and buying it. The
howl I : . . .
corn and cotton, in most cases, furnish
the monev.
got came from hard knocks and self-1 hi8dall oyementgchron
determination. The eityboy finds the j ,n t)* Dewspapers in conne,tion 1 themselves haye never contested the
with speculations as to why he was
The Napolean craze has subsided
and the Washington craze is up—one
much more worthy for Americans.
"Washington, or the Revolution" is a
powerful production by Ethan Allen.
It weaves into fiction beautifully the
heroic scences of the revolutionary
times.
benches shaped to fit his spine, the
books to fit his mind and the school
hours to suit his inclination and he
comes out of school with the ruinous
belief that the world must fit itselt to
him. The country boy learns to fit
himself to the world and is a success,
while the city bred boy is generally a
failure.
Mr. Klines, of Oklahoma county,
gave straight talk about parasites and
fungicites. lie said a hundred years
ago superstition said these were curses
sent of God—and the only attempt to
get rid of them was to call on the |
priest to intercede and get God to call i
off the pests and give the frugal toiler .
u chance The farmer lias since found
these things are as natural as all na- j '0 be his subordinat<
Mire and i'uh bo curtailed by man «—
and the study of how best to do it j W'UKiii; was Dan Lamont last week7
should be followed closely by every ! He wasn't in Washington, and nobody
farmer He gave many remedies his seemed to know where he was. As
experience had found successful.
legality of the treaty.
There will probably be a lively
jumping of "squaw man"' allotments
out, there now, and bad blood is likely
to be stirred up.
there and what sort of a financial deal
he was making. He was in his glory,
but it was short lived. The treasury
department gave to the press a state-
ment saying that -Mr. Curtis was on
his vacation and that if he spent a
a good portion of his time in Wall
street it was for his own pleasure or
business and had no connection what-
ever with the government's finances.
That took all the wind out of his sails
and he went back to Wasington mad , -nia wllicU ,llls bixty six. and Indian
all over. He can't say anything to his ; t(Jrri which has sixty. The open.
superiors for fear that he may be call 1
LIBELIOUS REFORMERS.
El Ileno is bothered with some
so-called "reformers." This class
love to howl — and every
is derogatory to the commun-
ity. Everything is always going
to the dogs with them. They Hoke Smith says Cleveland at At-
would as leave or a little leaver send , janta ou October 22, will state that no
out a bad record for the town as a good | raan should be elected three times,
one. At a "reform meeting there the This is advice not needed. The Amer-
other night some agitator introduced jcan people have known this longer
the following "whereas," preceding i than Cleveland has.
some "reform" resolutions:
"Whereas, There has been a deprec-
iation of rents and property in the city
of El Reno of fully 65 per cent, a de-
rease of population more than 30 per ] 1
cent, and a corresponding diminution | fighting. Eastern humantarians
POSTOFElCE GROWTH,
The last report of the postmaster
general shows that last year 2,422
; new postoffices were established and
| .',103 discontinued. The new offices
; asked for were mainly in Oklahoma,
! which has sixtv-nine extra ones: Vir-
ed upon to resign that comfortable
salary, but he is taking it out on the
poor dt vi 1 s w ho are u nfortunate enough
The other speeches were equally en-
tertaining and profitable.
The farmers should keep up this
good work inaugurated. There should
be more head farming. The physical
must be guided by thought, investiga-
tion and friction. Such meetings as
that yesterday mean an elevation of
the greatest culture known to man—
agriculture.
idden t
' man1
nd
be I wheat
E\ i ry farmer who sells
>rn or cotton for <
with the breech-
lia, EgvptandSo
a bushel of
Secretary of War Dan was oh the pro-
gram for a speech at the Cliickamauga
battle field exercises. But he didn't
make that speech. Didn't even at-
tend the dedication ceremonies. He
never made a speech in his life, al-
though he is credited with having
written some that made a stir, and
some say that Dan ran off'and hid him-
self somewhere just to keep from mak-
ing that speech. Others say that he
mewhere in New York, under
was
<por1
lout
th A
must
abor !
cret
orde
from
Mi. Clevi
i with the
en ti on, wli
nd which
Xe
territory,
ing of lands in Oklahoma drew many
a family here to settle permanently
and a number of small towns have
been built, as well as farms taken up.
The Virginia boom is hard to ac-
count for. Georgia and Alabama have
been making much blow, but old Vir-
ginia has, in new postoffices at least,
walked right away with them.
The greatest loss in postoffices oc-
curred in South Carolina, West Vir-
ginia, Iowa and Kansas. Crops were
fairly good in the last two mentioned,
and just why farmers should have be-
come disgusted and have sought prai-
ries greener is another mystery. The
desire to be on the move is responsible
for one-half of tlve changes made os-
tensibly for other reasons.
Though Marshal Nix and his dep-
uties and the sheriff's and farmers!
have been waging a war of extermina-1
ion on the train robbef, the robbing
Six full-blood Mexican bulls are now
enroute to the Atlanta exposition and
the Mexican matadors aie there to do
of business of all kinds of more than
50 per cent."
There isn't a man in Oklahoma who
has visited Oklahoma within a year
who doesn't know that this is a base
libel; that El Reno is growing steadi-
ly, is full of promise, and has a larger
business than ever. And yet men
calling themselves citizens of that
town indite and publish such foolish
rot as the above. This is an example
of the ends to which some of the so-
will soon be in convulsions again. The
effete east will surelv be shocked,
The finances of the city council and
school, board since tte old debt was
funded, are in first-class shape. It
takes business men to make business
administrations and these are the sort
of men who now have charge of city
and scnool aff airs.
The "state democracy" and the
called •'reformers' will go in order to j Tammany brand have split, the former
gain notoriety and stir up strife. El \ bolting the state convention W'ednes-
Reno, if it prizes its good name.should j day because the Tammany contestants
annihilate these bile-ridden agitators, were seated, though with only a par-
They are birds of ill omen, who will tial vote This means that state dem
befoul their own nests as quickly as i ocracy will be republican until it coin-
any other. | pels the retirement of Tammany.
Reformers of sense are badly need- —
ed, always; but when a man, in re- The Chinese do not cireumlocute,
forming municipal abuses, knows no like the bloodesses of the Atlantic
better than to traduce his home, to in-1 coast, when they want to purchase a
jure the reputation of his own town, foreign matrimonial alliance. A
he at once becomes a public enemy,
and should be treated as such.
"We oppose the free coinage of 00
cents' worth of silver into a dollar,"
said the New York democratic state
convention resolutions. If you had
asked some man who helped pass those
resolutions to sell you the bullion in
the silver dollar in his
cents he would have
laug
pocket for 00
give
ti by
tin
wealthy Chinaman offers his daughter,
85,000 and a half interest in a big busi-
ness to any reputable young American
who will take him up. How many
young bloods hereabouts desire to ap-
piy?
There is a vein
taliation in the
ment in an excha
••Ten cents a 1
charged for obitr
jf sweet and just re-
'ollowing advertise-
straight,
will be
all bus-
nt In
Vest, of Missoui
reported change
went a little tr
rock-bound 10 to
\r to
That Cham
by ti.
...
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,i> ■ in is lb Uor-..-.U .jjiwj ""
1„ ! u ,iPn bare of all fin ffTbtfe wli<l!Vi'hS«r> i -t '
■r road movement is 1 works; ZoWifc'iS'iiilfl.' firefer- a' root.. , deposit.
It should have been j with little or nothing in it when he is I every o
when the first at- j writing; and Pierre Loti, the youngest
or two exceptions of the
.'.'t. I
ssly i
picase
men. He said that he would gladly I none too soon
vote for free coinage at a ratio of 16 to made two years ag
1, but that failing to get that he would tempt was inaugurat
also gladly vote for any other ratio energy to get trade—and equally a •«
that could command a majority in I much to hold it, superinduced by j rounded by Oiitnta ma^ni icene
■d. It takes | with
' French academy,
writes
congress.
lower prices and attractive stocks. | is popularly supposed.
deposited in wooden casts affording
every opportunity for loss or theft. It
is not likely, however, that Postmas
ter Jones of Squire's Hollow will ad-
vance upon Washington stealthily and
nervilv extract his bond from that lit-
tle wooden safe.
•n 11
How dip it happen that in the agri-
cultural display at Island park this
<veck there was no cotton? Are we to
neglect this great king?
! Ai ■ <.iii)in<j 1 o tlu- E! Reno Herald,
! liev F. E. Whitfc im, of Rutherford.
Vt., is suing his wif. . Relic Whitham,
for divorce, at Guthrie, and alleges
i that she got the notion in her head
i t hat she could lecture, and has since
! deserted her children to go on lectur-
i ing tours and when she did come home
would lose her temper so as to break
up all the small furniture in the
house
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