New State Tribune (Newspaper) - July 8, 1909, Muskogee, Oklahoma to m FIFTEENTH AN MITS t DON'T WANT NEGROES TO TAKE THE OATH George Wright and Agent J. Blair Shoenfelt Furnish Interesting Information for the Government in the Muskogee Lot SEN. ROBERT L. OVEN Mil VISIT OLD D. July 7.-The enate baa been getting a bustle on of and the now adjournment of congress by August 1..' Traey were around last When Senator tried to away and get a few whiffs of breeze but his cohorts found hey could do nothing hut sail about fin circles without the guiding spirit f the master hand and so. C. Q. O. signals were flashed up along the Atlantic coast and was located and hit the iron back to Before adjournment that afternoon the corporation tax had been voted If there is anyone in this land of the free home of the brave that has an idea that Nelson W. run tbe United States he has another package of guesses The Untied States of America should be renamed In honor ol the Rhode Island ship of state and should be called the United States of R. who used to play tennis with took his in so It is and wrote a to S. R. government charge JULY 8, 100c. NUMBER 37. but two wbt TENNESSEE accept college State-Wide Put Into Effect nt frune 80.-The Holladay statewide prohibition passed by the general goes into effect at midnight The makes It illegal sell whisky or other alcoholic Ql any Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma announces that upon the adjournment of congress he will sail for the old world where he will undoubtedly hobnob with Everyone here in administration circles is watching with Interest the veracity contest being pulled off to the Five Tribes J. George Wright and Agent J. Blair Shoenfelt as to the matter of scheduling town lots in Muskogee and Id which subject the government seems to be taking such undue Shoenfelt into Washington recently and told the department of justice and the of interior that seemed to make swim since ho particular crimps had been put in Uncle Sam's way in the matter of waging a political prosecution against Gov. Haskell and five well known Muskogee Col. Shoenfelt told the officials here that Mr. Wright not only knew all about the manner of scheduling town lots through dummies but that Wright had ordered him to take money for lots after Shoenfelt explained the entire matter to The honors so far are apparently held by Col. Shoenfelt have raised his voice in a weak Eight years ago the government informed of the manner in lots were being scheduled in the Creek nation towns and the department of Justice and the president of the United States himself They failed to even think - the matter over until Gov. Haskell told a few things that in the last campaign and then like a veritable swooping down from an apparently clear came the sleuths and the was the hue and cry that was raised by Creek National Attorney UStt and the New York and taken up by the government officials It was a merry pastime until they ran up against a some of their own folks were in danger of being caught in the grand Jury in and implored him not to land his good J. George Wright and Dana H. It was awful naughty and it was such a dreadful conspiracy tot Gov. Haskell and the others to get a lot that wasn't worth powder to blow it up and especially when they had paid the price the government demanded and who scheduled lots in the manner as laid down by the townsite it was for and be While Mr. for wasc promoted to higher job In tile government Garfield's letter evidently had the desired effect for no one ever of Mr. Wright being One Qf the government attorneys interested in the prosecution of Gov. plead with President Taft not to appoint Mr. Wright as Indian commissioner because he had been mixed up in the scheduling of Muskogee town lots and although Wright had been slated for the position be finally turned Why wasn't ho prosecuted if all these stories be It seems the government went off at half cock on these Oklahoma prosecutions and everyone is wondering how any person could defraud the government of anything of value when the representatives of the government were suggesting and approving the way to obtain the thing J. W. President Will be Asked to Give That Only White in the Southern 4.-Concernea about they suppose to be the possibility that negroes may be sent into the homes of white residents the South as enumerators to within four miles information for the thirteenth 8chl federal democratic The Passing of the of congress will urge to reports received to give Instructions that wm marked by Kent of white enumerators shall be All through ployed in district of and to the stroke oi and Dixon's saloons and grog shops who Representatives of. the Southern crowded with states In congress sav that police precautions little hope of preventing the a patrolman on in every city block Is located a Unne at the request of tbe saloon who feared that crowds Qf revelers would overstep the bounds of good In the the crowds were good To Be Rigidly In striking contract with Inn scenes of revelry In the heart of the the statewide prohibit unless the president Reports of the experience of the Virginia delegation in seeking a portion of the census patronage from that state have the Southern Senator Martin and Representative Hay of It Is were Informed by Director Durant that the recommendations of the can referees in the Southern states who had waged and won the would wherever In hottest campaigns in the the designation of supervisors of the history of the held private meetings of As passed by the the There were of thanks nnd bin provided that the hymns of praise in the of tors should Ufe appointed by - the j leading members of the local requirement although aa public should be meeting of rejoicing was held hi any of the churches in the The usual hat the appointment upon the advice and consent of the senate was An amendment was adopted in the supplying this Democratic senators say that It Is not the loss of his patronage that disturbs but the fear that the republican referees will through the appointment of Thus far in the administration of President Taft all of the republican patronage referees In the Southern states have been It Is ga have both expressed the to enforce the law to its are largely under obligations - Are Bridges has to Osage which embraces all the lands of the Osage Indian reservation the burden of building roads and and August 17 an election will be held to determine whether or not the county shall issue bonds to the amount of for the building of eighty-eight bridges over all tbe large and many of the small streams of the Such a large single expenditure for the one Item of bridges has not been undertaken by any other county in the though there are a num will be com to spend Targe sums this Osage county is not unlike the old Indian Territory part of the state In having been prior to of any way to raise funds by taxation for the building Of roads and neither having enjoyed organized local Whatever the reasons may be and they may be valid reasons from the standpoint of the board of county the latter has provided for the construction of only fifteen stone bridges out of a total of all the others being steel or strue The longest arch of any stone bridge proposed is 40 feet and the greatest cost ojT any single stone Many of the steel bridges will have spans from 80 to more than 100 feet in A large number of the Osage streams would require two if Stone bridges were built over The Arkansas river is to be bridged at four places at a total cost of only half of would paid by to negro leaders for tbe prominent ] positions they hold in republican All of these conditions tend to occasion concern in the The that admission to the home cannot be denied to white or who hold government commissions to gather serves ylt is for this reason minority decided to appeal to tbe SENATOR GORE HAS BECOME ENTHUSIASTIC AERONAUT Blind Statesman Goes Repeatedly to Port Myer to Wright Brothers Osage the other being July 4.-Through DOrna by tne different neighboring to Fort Myers repeatedly to The total cost of the the Wright brothers fly in ' atone bridges would be their Senator the 300 to be in vested In steel The stone the streams the coat of these Dry Little Clear two two plum Sand creek Sol Wow creek blind statesman from is most tic Senator Gore's substitutes for the eyes he lost by a series of accidents during his youth are his and a keen sense of to both of which his mind Is peculiarly From them he obtains the came thrill of excitement that others through first-hand x Few men in Washington are affected by the of an event Senator helps to comprehend the quiet words of Ms wife as she explains every South Rock dier New body oft the of success or failure of the machine in In maintaining itself in the When aHls autopsy the and a physician declared the that of white boy not mare 16 years A discoloration tallowing the long ap and was not a careful concluded he Is just as anxious to applaud as any senator also is a base ball He Is & frequent patron of the League games where knows more about 6aae< than him to the play police were convinced their wag The new law is to be rigidly throughout the Mayor Malone and Police Chief Davis of this city and acting for the will wage vigorous war on and social hundreds of which have been organized to evade the law if i. Won't Be Wet Long. Mayor James Brown of Nashville and the chief of police of State Board Also for June 30.-The state board of public affairs today finally thn new building of the colored agricultural and mechanical at subject to a five-year secured and to an agreement tn remedy several minor defects ready The whs over in the contractors The board let contracts for printing the of V. P. S. at Tonkawa to the fur nf the colored agricultural and university to the company of for r The different of supplies nil of stater are now being taken up by the Bids were received yesterday on coal and office and today on groceries and clothing and shoos are yet to be disposed of. The board has been deluged last so with emergency re- from the various which found at the last minute that their supply fund for 1?0S was not exhausted and would revert the treasury If used before For of the state been confining their to absolute but can now And plenty of articles that badly if they find that there is any left from their appropriations for the past Some of the schools want sewing machines for their domestic science others pianos Tor musical with scientific apparatus and many other articles of educational VOTING ON TIFf SCHEDULES Forces Adoption of His Refuses to Rate on Writing Paper by a Vote of 34 to Vote Will Soon Be BAILEY'S M SUE INDIAN FOB LA Sit DEED There are points in the entire state where the law does not Both these are located within twelve miles Memphis hear the Mississippi The nearest school house is six miles but steps have already been taken by to have the county board of education erect a school Within the distance Memphis city In Should Rave Been 3uly 2.-A morning paper published in Guthrie is having daily conniption fits because Secretary Cross ruled that the referendum petition on the Taylor election was not properly Had this same paper and those instigated the petition and compelled the postmasters of the state to circulate paid more attention to the operandi of the law Instead of | spending ail the CHILDLESS COUPLES BARRED or John Property Congrats Granted to Mm. June 30.-Jud^q Cotteral In the federal court today heard arguments on the defendant's demurrer in the case brought by the heirs of John N. Florer to compel chief of the Osage to execute a deed to for a tract of land at Gray Horse which was granted to Florer by the act of Congress providing for the allotment of the The contention chief and hie - Und m not say anything He died before a deed was berth W H D. July 7.-W'hon today moved for iay agreement by the senate on all paragraphs or the tariff which the did not care to reserve for further there a widespread movement to reserve TETe against which ators desire to muko a last stand changes In It was that on adoption of a motion to agree on any paragraph not reserved at this time that paragraph would placed possibility of i though the entire measure would still be open for amendments not affecting the paragraphs agreed PULLMAN RATES ARE Commission Names Ibices for 3D.-14re corporation commission today issued a proposed upon which a hearing will bu granted July 24, fixing rates to be charged by tbe Pullman company and prescribing rules and A schedule of seat rates Is ranging from 23 cents for seventy-five miles and under to 50 cents for 200 miles and In standard cars the following rates are fixed for One hundred and sixty miles and for lower and for upper 200 miles and for lower for upper 300 miles and for lower and for upper Tourist rates are from for 160 miles and under to for 200 The Pullman company Is required to sell seats in Pullman beginning at reasonable hours in the and to stations reached up to 10:30 night and up to mid- the Senator reserved tax Stone took the same action In relation to Senator Brown reserved the print paper While Senators Penrose and Oliver Indicated they would make a further to rata on 5 Senator Bacon cotton ties and Senator Insisted on the entire sugar schedule and the paragraph relating to writing paper open for There were also many other With all reservations tt vote was taken on the schedules and they were adopted en Consideration of the reserved schedules was then begun and along All committee amendments In. the schedules relating agricultural silks and wood pulp were agreed rich resisted most of tbe amendments nnd all were disposed of in IUh favor by viva voce The first aye and no vote of the day was on amendment to restore the rate on writing paper by reducing the It was rejected by a vote of 34 to 39. SO PUBLIC WiX KNOW No Families Without Children Permitted In This Apartment St. June 30.-The first apartment house -In the United States where tenants without lh | Will not be accepted will be declaring that the law was no good erected in St. Louis in the most was merely a I elusive parrot to two scheme to ride into office they ' apartments where families with have been better prepared to are The new have properly drawn and filed a pe according to the provisions of the This crowd has lost before Secretary and one would hardly ex- ment will cost There will be no limit to the number of children in any Every girl baby born in the structure will earn a month's rent free for its par and it is claimed that the grant was annulled by his The Interior department has directed to make the deed and is taking the side of the while department of justice is upholding The demurrer which is now being argued is to the jurisdiction of the Chief is here himself is represented by C. of D. P. A. Shinn of and District Attorney John O. Johnson of Pawnee represents the Colonel John to whom the grant was was an Indian trader among the different results They were and to tne about as well prepared to make bab b a rent of the law as a Sioux Indian would cel t iven Tne b bes be prepared to use a Gatling - - The case goes to the supreme no one doubts that the supreme court will decide according to It will not be decided to fit the wishes of any one on the present occasion or to help or to hinder any political The decision of the will blaze out the way for the future use of the referendum and front present indications it is probable that the law will often be at least that was the intention of tbe framers of the After the courts hand down its decision and after Joe Frank Greer and fellows of that crowd have given a little earnest consideration to the merits of the law which they have always opposed no doubt be to make use of the This is one instance where the republican should not have the referendum law at What they need to use is the They want to tear down our be remembered with a year's privilege of the in perfect care of a trained Each suite of rooms will be fitted up with a and there will be a general playroom in the in charge of Instructors to teach the coming generations physical A dancing with also will be operated free for the S. D. a loral real estate conceived the plan and organized the syndicate which is hacking the Kansas Sidney who died a few days ago in and who was for years one of the most prominent political figures of is said to have been the first man to have felt the prejudiced sneer of the gen i nine Clarke was making a speech one they have 4IJX*"!^.-." o' ca without suggesting a They will ol his personal initiate a law which meets 80016 of their approval offer it Jn the garbed in the Place of the present law by an This they still with opportunity to do and are not driving home his ed by and one child under 10 or by one adult and two children un der 10 SYSTEMATIC FARMING WINS leral Attempt In Tulsa County Shows Big June 30.-With the wheat crop making from to thirty-five bushels to the acre and bringing as high as on the local the prospect for com and cotton the best ever an immense potato crop already ed and fine crops of all early - county farmers and fruit He was living with the tribe when the treaty was made for their re- Srowers are in a pleasant frame of from their lands in to the reservation In Northern The first really systematic at and had been with them eves tempt Bt farming la this It Is the property which he had occupied as his home at Gray lon la thiB in farmers with scientific j training from the famed states of the North have largely planted the old-fashioned native farmers who were generally satisfied ith a patch of cotton and corn and 1KLU Horse that is now in To North Pole July 3.-Professor director of the museum expressed his that the proposal to reach the North Pole In Zeppelin's airship is The professor points out farm that the distance from attracted these to the pole is about equal to that from Friedrichshafen to which trip the Zeppelin craft has Eric Von a well-known geographer and polar is also of tbe opinion that the discovery of pole lie's within a radius of of Count Zeppelin's huge the dangerous and severe arctic storms as things to be also the rays of the which develop great strength In the arctic region in the summer Okmulgee Buildings June 30.- few I The prospective opening to sale of 'a large part of the Osage many of these expert who will buy the land and make their homes in the MURDER SUSPECT GETS bail But County Attorney Rearrests and Legui Tangle June 30.-Tbe criminal court of appeals today heard arguments on the application for a writ of habeas corpus for William charged with the murder of Armstrong at about two weeks Tne case the right tice of the peace to allow bond in a murder has never been passed upon by 'the higher of the on Freight and Passenger Charges Are to Inspection In June 30i-The corporation commission today an order requiring alt prepare indexes of ail ules and either freight or and such hands of agents at all facilities to keep the records in plete and readily accessible The agent is required to any stale of In Owen Favors Owen of hiss a speech a federal tance He 1^t^B^j|p;^ obtained in every in the world except while a of ' of the ' u His estates 000. placing 1 from to cent on 6 per cent on cent on 8 000, 10 per cent on succeeding r - reached 100 cent at 000 and in excess effect of this amendment Is not inheritance In the He argued forbidding the law lt. the Common law ties and inheritance up gigantic whose accumulations Would mately - all a tew substantial enslavement mass of Big Gray days since and jir A gaunt man sat on the front He apparently i watf not listening to the but Dld They Clarke's Jhe He went Have the over Sud representing things when a. deal was being excited ThlS H. who Is operating at pulpa Cobb avers that these Interpret at at i obligingly toward gone into the courts to He declares the investigation buttons In City rans mr Westmoreland Was Main 8troot bond by the of the and whom his b8 tion was reared at completed and by September 1st cars instance of the county who the right of the tice to allow bond in a Jack Harris of as for then brought habeas corpus to pel his release on the bond already The county of Texas county Is. to be running between the son Lake a new suburban addition southeast of the amount of building is now being done lh this city especially in business Moj too are erecting a building 100 by 110 feet in depth and will possibly make it a original was for Just Charles M. Roberts is erecting a two-story block oh the south side T. J. Baker has Tuition two Urges Taft to Appoint of just completed a brick to joining the Morton block and the Elks nek two-story brick erected by Arch city fifty in cost that only white he employed In tne are being the of the way from South within about 30,Q brought ing dogs he ' and lassa around shed wolf Duty ma conference 9moot, teen a now
