Stilwell Standard (Newspaper) - February 28, 1902, Stilwell, Oklahoma It's itt the I I STANDARD 2 Successor ttf the Stilwell No. 38. i. february 1902. M. & - IND. J M- * Physician and Physician C S. J. ' R. - A Resident Teeth Without ' ' at ROW MATT AN cental Will make Stilwell a be in Stilwell from the 20th to the 26th of each THUS O & Attorneys at I. T. arid I. T f Votary Rooms 3 and 4, First National IND. H. M. BE dispatches from Washing ton gives the information that t he memorial passed by the late Cherokee Council setting forth the terms of an agreement wilh the U. S. government has at last reached the federal The Secretary of Interior wants several minor in that and wants the Cherokee delegation to yo to with power to agree to these and if they do this the Secretary is ready to take up the agreement and submit it to There could be reasonable objection to granting the Secretary's as our will have a vote on the is made by and between Congress and tnV delegation before it can possibly be binding on our people Then as reasonable let the coming session of tho Cherokee Council so instruct our to the that we may get our Chi fixed up before allotment takes or before we are forced to so that each Cherokee get his or her in both lands and Our people have let use it. Chief Buffing ton has done all a faithful servant could do for his and his acts and efforts should be The man or Who now lag hold buck are no The Chief has just returned and no doubt has valuable information and good advice to give the National Council when it convenes in extra session Notary Office L uther Practices in all Imat documents ' I 4U.......... at A- 0, Embalmers and Undertakers Or Orders are Given Special 1 FOUr ARK. mi News Beaier 1 And of at of V i 4eligfrtittUpf&<;e to your street Irtish a game Alex the talented Creek and editor of Indian says that Crazy Snake and his followers mean no that they simply ct to the new order of and want to go to where they can have a Creek and are meeting to plan iu that He lurther says these not vv s pipe r s ijn t gl y crated The following is. from the I Journal of last and can be on as the facts iu the a days two or three hundred Creek Indians of tno Crazy Snake taction been encamped at Hickory Last were joined fifty Chero These people are too for and few for w dr. They are as far meaning harm as tha government clerks wt MusKogee poor people are in 'a pitiful 1 They principally buV last year they raised or no they now have to eat the here and expel the White people by reviving an old the which no Indian may lease or a white man or employ a white Can Draw on Feb. 15.- The various offices of the Interior Department in any wise concerned with of affairs were full of busy men when your correspondent there Chief was with the first assistant Inspector making his report or giving additional about the condition of Cherokee and even Judge chief of the Indian Territory bad not time for more than a word or in which to his surprise that there should beany question of immediate Cherokees in destitute and referred to the amount of the national He said that his nothing of any destitution among the Cherokees on account of the drouth or for any other and while of the department is aware that severe last summer resulted in the failure of crops in certain sections of the Cherokee yet as the national fund of the tribe amounts to which for relief in there no reason for any the part of any members of the tribe from such as the heads of the Nation have it iu their power to draw on tins fund in accordance with the of the Curtis through tne agent at In addition to the fund there is of course the asylum fund of tho orphan of 31 and the of 21, bat none of these could be drawn upon for this purpose except under unusual All of these funds bear an annual of 5 As this is the existing state of affairs it hardly be call { f a 1 ir If Mm ie garter Bixby in Tarns T chairman Indian and prominent in Minnesota the twenty is the having come lb business with the Interior Dept r said Mr. to finish the work for which s the next two That make Lhe of the ft been in 18Q3.^0^r lowly ' of is m T ' ' t do As is well foy several years there have been up with strong memberships two republican in the town of the This caused more or less friction and almost bitterness at times iu the But such was and by a united effort and fraternal concert of action among all these two rival clubs both voluntarily dissolved and into Whereupon a general of republicans was called by the former presidents of the now and signed about forty which resulted in a huge gathering of the faithful followers of and from miles at the office of on Oak last Saturday 2 p.m. After much informal the was called to order by Luther who read call and briefly stated the object the Upon B. C was chosen temporary chairman aud W. Smith temporary R. B. Stanu acted as temporary On motion organization was The chair appointed a committee of five to draft and report at once a Constitution While was out the meeting by speeches from different loca Constitution and were reported and At the suggestion of this union club is to bear the historical and beloved name of full official title McKinley Republican of As many members do speak Englishman interpreter is added to the Everything was interpreted all the way It was decided by motion to vote for officers of the club by the secret for president by ibe to be ia The following were placed iu nomination for this H. J. B. Luther Kyle and R. L. After several ballots were taken Hon. Luther Kyle elected by major 1 On motion the rules suspended and Hon David Hitcher was chosen president by The ballot for the other officers resulted as For B C. j WILLIAM Sho But n Ry tho name of Ho tho Down at Old - At boys piny 1: Tho girls thoy i- Phis so kind Until Mr then la a different To I to flo's the Statehood J Feb 23,-The to be reported by lhe House committee on territories for the admission of Oklahoma to statehood will a provision for the final addition of the The subcommittee charged with of revising the and preparing a report been irt consultation upon the and several * agreed upon by will be will meet tpt morrow to complete the work putting the in The original as presented by Mr. delegate contained a clause giving Congress power to annex the Indian Territory to the state at such time as the lands of the Indians are subject to f: taxation and had in ' This was the of and as an before the Indian could be united with it would-be necessary to have proposition by a vote the inhabitants of the territory .eg This proposed amendment ooen to be reported will leave annexation with As soon the full committee reports the three teri bills to the House it will take ap question of for the On this point is much contention and j the adoption a system ive be v * of this measure is residents without taxable lands able to bear the sequent upon the full territorial of men t i Pursuant to the at the conclusion of the election of j Kyle announce committee of the and the It
