New State Tribune (Newspaper) - July 4, 1907, Muskogee, Oklahoma ft EST TO TBM INDIAN TERRITORY AND THK 3f JULY 4, 1907. FIRST SECTION NUMBER + * IN THE MUSKOGEE * Oil Was struck in the new + well of the Eastern Oil locates In the Muskogee field + i + late Tuesday + Big Rush Begun July That Date Being Accepted as The wen was down to a depth + J J r r * of 1640 feet when the sand was * + first encountered and in the sand a few feet when the oil was There was no estimate placed on the production and the com- 4 pany that it would be put down to a greater depth * before the rig would be The oil is the same high grade found in other wells in + that and experienced + oil hien believe this one will * prove to be even better than + * between * the section line just east of the + IRE LANDS { ation of 5 Year Treaty Playing Safe on the Proposition u The records la the six recording is an and came from districts of the Creek nation show that oh the first and second days of acres of land owned by Indians changed hands and the property of white s Greek supplemental treaty made five years ago Monday provided that after five years from the date of that treaty the Indians have the right to sell all of their lands except the The amendment passed at last Session of congress provided that the should not sell any land for 25 years secretary of The Indians did hot agree to this i. lawyers of the territory are of opinion that the McCumber amendment is. unconstitutional because It imposed -a restriction upon property rights of American citizens without their and it is the legal advice of these at Monroe county when the Creek na was first He has neen buying land ever This com pany has 24 men buying it branch offices in all of the recording Mr. Bradley stated tonight that his company has at this J time 147,000 acres of land bought * Creek No. 1. and that it will keep on until 200,- * Its location is east 000 acres have * - - - This which appears to Pd the M. K. & T. * railroad and is about + be buying on about the schedule as for land just double the government whatever that may In I addition to this per acre is added for land that has been plowed * one and a half mites from the * + Creek + * + * * HUNTING BAND OP ASSASSINS once and the actual cost of any im- Think Oklahoma City Has that been Bradley stated today that not O. July 3.--an acre of the land his company has The are now working on the purchased will be sold to theory that the James Meadows that land buyers are one and the purchaser Qf any from Rudolph 1 must Indicate that he is going to Tegeler or Mrs. Lillian Improve the The land will be heJd investigation of the sold on long some of it ten have the Congress not certain that the McCumber amendment waa good So it made a special provision that the court of claims should decide the There is a Cherokee case now pending before the court which Daniel leader of the Night is the He suit prevent the United States from placing a cloud the title to his T. his is a test In all probability a similar case will be taken up from the Creek The land buyers are playing safe on their They purchase a. piece of pay down small more than a third of usually a deed to the ianf 4;^^)^jien give the Indian A contract to pay him the that of the possession of his land pays nP interest oh his ' The records show that land buyers all over the nation have beea exceedingly Everyone is buying The International Land Co. at Is probably the heaviest C. M. Brad ley is head of this He IN THE OKLAHOMA RACE ' Mayor Stearns of Shawnee Wants Republican Gubernatorial July 3.-Formal announcement of the candidacy of Mayor Frank H. of Shawnee fer the gubernatorial nomination was made tonight at a big banquet tendered him hy The support of five Indian ' Territory counties has been Stearns will run on a platform demanding acceptance ot the constitution and a new deal In party A bunch of town builders at Can-do are putting down some drill They say they are not boring for anything but want to find out if there is anything that will their If there is that's what they are drilling They hope to strike oil or RAILROAD AGED 6 Earl Youngest in It will be sold just as fast as title is perfected to actual bona fide farmers and settlers in tracts of 20 up to 160 not more to murder was one of the of an organized band of assassins suppos ed to have been operating So far all attempts to get a state i TO TIKE CENSUS OF Deputy Marshal Dan at ran across two women 4>| with a wagon loaded with Enumerators Have Arrived and are on the Keystone trail last * He placed the 4 men under arrest and they + ed to be allowed to change their clothes before they were taken Fifty Table With t while the women went behind tlie wagon and They * + took so long that Prank began + to nose around and he found + + that the two women had + + They had left cor- * Salaries For Lots of County Lines to Be Has Deep Interest in Oklahoma Democracy Last Thursday Day in * * with tbe + lingerie hanging on the Okla. July 3-William county lines as designated in ' proposed constitution of the state of ' The work of shall oe done special agents ' i i 051 ft * T C. chief statistician for population in the United States census with arrived here Monday to mke a 's of Oklahoma and wad Democratic Parker sadly make his headquarters In Guthrie * secured the wagon and ag In charge of the * team Started for * He tonight to predict W. and Ex-Governor Bob 4> team started Toylor of were both has the clothes iUn u wnen the would be but said that it would be pushed as rapidly as The general departmental order for the census discredits the report that Governor will control the A part of the eral reads as The census shall begn July 1. 1907, and the of the us the * intended have 4 them the with + + the County It FRANTZ will ACT The supper was vention in Muskogee County July 3.-^Governor of Prantz will issue the election inhabitants shall be as the 7t far as within two weCka constitutional convention that For purposes of invitations and there is filed enumeration the territory Is hereby N. Farmer years and with no payment where the purchaser on the land and improves it This is done It was announced last night that a Tegeler was expected at any and for two in order to get good farmers who will make farms worth the Carrison and County tiem Attorney Hayes were closeted with g Tuyers are following Jff the same policy as this r There Is little land being bought City for Mrs. Ethel from anv The name lB now wld t0 be Sd Woods selling not and it is said anti a Sat dea of that the woman cannot be mixed been She now regarded as one of fW iav most important but was * given an opportunity to get that after gust 8. is the safe time to buy N. A. one of the best morrow t0 investigate toe C SANDERS and a canvass of * Muskogee shews that his opinion is shared by practically all 5^ftVp^iTta- of thl lawyers who have made a i Tia IT of land titles on the St. Iron or iana Mountain & Southern was same condition which exists Creek nation will come 5*2 S about in the Cherokee nation on the * eighth of August when the fiVe year that two over the entire so that it was a real Democratic banquet in which him the proper copies of the divided into five the boun precinct in the entire county constitution and the election of which shall as far as but was It is stated positively that those of the fire con- The following named persons were Frantz will not act until the districts apportioned to at the gates quit the proposed state of At the of the table N. The when they convene Each of five districts shall be - may meet In the summer under the Immediate supervision of ter at Electric Th auditorium a chief of division of the census of- in the city convention hall which had Who will make daily reports to been arranged for the constitutional the supervisor in The convention has been put back in its comprised in the present and P. former all the desks of Oklahoma and Indian Territory At end of the chairs being shall be divided into De Robs president of the The announcement from districts SB platted by geo- J. ton that President Roosevelt has grapher of the the lines of of the Young dered a census is bringing to these districts to strictly ' Col. nor Frantz applications for jobs as aB far as to the wheel horse of census but as governor ship and municipal charter has not been advised in the matter where the same and to he can do nothing but acknowledge the receipt of the Charles H. secretary of the Man With has received from Oklahoma July 3. limit on restrictions as provided in ] their treaty persons called Mr. Sanders to his door and told him they wanted to hire out to him to hoe He then walked to the gate near where the parties and one opened Are on him with a pistol Campaign Committee July 3.-State Chairman Joe Thompson of the lahoma state democratic committee S announced the following run the ment of state campaign the shot rt striking the There is no dff as to dld the E. C. Ret O. is to push Prank stine of tbe same 2*. Talala to a distance of IP six as one of the Fourth of t July the result of ah 6' for governor Swan was to give Stine this ride and if Cruce had won Stine was to give Swan Honorable W. A. the The bet was made in Mr. and Durant were the faith and will be carried put guests of Mr. and C. N. by the loser on the Fourth of at Muskogee last Thursday and it is understood that when the wheelbarrow pair reaches Clare Mr. Durant Is the celebrated they will be met by a band of At the or cne meet In the thea of the hiB at his Pleasant principal chief of Creek Hon. 8 Senator-elect R. L. Men's Marcum were Col. Grant A. M. T. nty Committee Chair Porter Spauld the act of March 3, 18ur,-prilHwiiu for- taking the twelfth quent The shall be as far as possible of the enumerating districts are to They shall be without regard to their | opinions And knowledge ' of they are to ot shall than a day of ten hours field work The charge is of these nature of the td and the of meht or No allowance twr or traveling expenses of shall be made To enable the charge to carry out the of this order the cj bf division in the are hereby to tor enumerating in the Rev. P. man E. A- m J. Ci A. inton a request for the vote by pre- Snapping like a dox and to as cast in the election in No- control his nervous J. A. secretary the oi Pauls T. It. Horace D. W. secretary Muskogee Democratic C. 1^jBradlcy, W. TRAGEDY AMONG indians E. Wi R. Murray G. 1S" Two Dead as Result of Trouble of siding in or near S 3.-Jimmy James ft who lived Kelley Roach and J. B. almost mlles from r T waa assassinated in hia hnd hv gradually been growing J. L. McCorkle and Mergans Bald tonight that the Webbers a tow later could live Jack Council w lB the today he suffered from Dr Jud n R John a brother-in-law J. A. Steele and C. R. Qf him to a Three years ago of Job School Frozen Rock pre- this was taken to the city Jail and a Street was bitten by a mad dog av on May 4 and brought Jb the local Pasteur institute two weeks He was that no hopes could be entertained of his recovery and since that time he has TBd I. T. S. M. C. P. Griffin and R. B. J White Democratic newspaper men pres enit M. O. A. Frank Lou jr. B. C. All the full blood Indians and the trouble dates back several years he was hurt in a Rock Island wreck In the local yards and both tegs were If mm. Lake The the price the tbe fright compi of tof ranches is agricultural mm This is the many years ' Itato market Negro Brute I. 3.-r-"Tlb," a negro known locally as a bad was shot and killed by the of- fleers while resisting arrest near On June 16, Stigler Man V Yohola 1 T- 3--J- H. Ram w Will manager for the Western States this On June 16, 1T Lumber Company of this has the 12-year-old daughter of Tim been arrested on a charge by the Davis was assaulted near of It is ah ville by this negro who ravished that he has drawn for A man hunt was immediately he cannot the bad gotten The arrest of Mr. Ramsay has away and conld not be outside the caused a sensation in the He pral days later Deputy Marshal 0t81e me has for several one of and Geoge Scott located the negro worom ft the leading both in a just across the Canadian from social and served one They started to arrest Klui fhe pf term His frends claim when the negro attacked them with the late Senator Morgan Aia 8now a of health when the trial creased the along tbe Art taw orator who a most im portant part in the Democratic cam He was recently nominated for joint representative by Bryan and Atoka He was one of the guests at the Bryan supper given by the County Democratic club lapt Thursday Haskell enthusiasts with brass Captain a retired | and Gid a farmer and stock man of Wagoner W. A. Wagoner County The Wagoner Record Claude of Wagoner who was given the nomination for sheriff by 12 has resigned his place on the ticket and A. J. Burchett has been named his Burchett was the an aged is the | candidate and when the close Republican Congressional Conv and Cornelius of tho editor of the Democrat at congressional committee Mo. a meeting of the committed Capt. Burk of Oklahoma county July 12 to set the daTe for had also been Invited but was un- holding a convention to absent a republican candidate Friday avoidably from this The July 13 and 14, 1907,^ There will be roping cornstalk J oldest prisoner ever confined In a in Indian He is ninety-six years of age and the fath er of nine daughters and eight He was sent to the Muskogee jail charged with assault to kill Richard near Williams is vote threatened to disrupt the party agreed to withdraw from the ticket and let have the She Fights Wild Mrs. who lives nea at the point of and if toe dies I has made a reputation that a charge of murder will be lodged against Governor Ex-Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee was a guest of P. Hall while in Muskogee last Hall was a former acquaintance of the celebrated Governor Bob Taylor before coming to the Indian July 3,-The Wisconsin & railroad claims the youngest telegraph operator ih the He is Earl aged 6, of He and receive messages with perfect ease and t He is the of L. J. the M. operator at His mother was Miss chief operator of the Marinette telephone great interest in the Morse she can whip her weight in wild A short time ago she discovered the lair of a bob cat She drove the mother cat off and captured all three of the year in the same canyon killed a large bob cat after a desperate fight in which she was severely cut and Woodmen at Tulsa The executive committee of the Territorial organization of Modern 26, at A Million for The Bureau U- Woodmen of has decided sued a statement today which shows that the annual log rolling shall he that Muskogee Is paying a million held this year September ae dollars per year in It is proposed to cut thiB some by * using boats on the There are In Indian Territory 38 survivors of the Modoc war of 1871 river 1s. on a They were brought here shortly The rise was unexpected and is un- after the of Captain usual at this reason ot the in Haileyville bad a big day The new of Foraker In the last week the only hotel in the Osage nation has organised a com town menial club a big knife and he was riddled with A. H. T. A. and Members oft tin Soeal No a republican July 13 and 14, 1' from this be The party included called to meet at by lawyers and business the each The ir hlc tion was called off. lisfr Creek band will furnish mu President N. K. Farmer seated his the convention will slc for tne occasion guests at the supper tahle and at nu on whatever is a Grant Evans re- T Rev. A. turned Hon S. M. Introduced Bryan to the other guests pres ent. arter Every newspaper In the new state is now poking fun at the federal judges who granted injunction the Most of the newspapers are unkind enough to To Disburse School George Hillman has been was next arter ed disbursing agent for all the hich S. M. Rutherford called money for Hon. Tom Marcum for an ad- Jn dress of welcome to W. Bryan on iB the of J. D. Probate courts of the Muskogee superintendent of who an old has formerly disbursed this + - m. In the future Mr. Benedict will de- * vote his time exclusively to school The schools require about annually and over 1,000 Col. time friend supporter of Mr always interesting oh such was most happy in his welcome address to which Mr. Bryan I - concluding the teachers are employed with a fifteen minute which wias enjoyed by everybody The entire occasion was one of Democratic Want a * MUSKOGEE COUNTY 4> r * * The Muskogee County cratic Central has * + opened headquarters In. Oil producers want to find some 6 and 7 in the sort of a that will tag in and will there their oil tanks from make plans for the They might also include some * sort of a wind break to protect There win be a meeting ol * the committee Friday afternoon + at * purpose of m. Second Crop Two boxes of strawberries were their rigs from brought into town x this morning from the Kenwood farm two miles R. W. Lindsy and Judge J. east of the that are the second two of the substantial old of is + crop of berries from the berry field Democrats of Mayes visited tary ot the central committee this There is one acre of Muskogee last Thursday night to will have charge of the on farm that this year hear Mr. Bryan's 4 All Democrats produced worth of f. - are invited to call at in. the first The same The government is spending ters whenever vines have now commenced te bear noo beautifying Piatt National park at in the m m m Statistics and ten per navy when Mm rait Ed A his bit The lion miles of and nearly wm chiefs of with three la as the dor - * v Bryce through
