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Muskogee, Indian Territory, Thursday September 29, 1904.
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Number 5
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BIG DAY
SATURDAY
LOYAL CFEK FUNDS WILL BE
DISBURSED AT THREE
OTHER TOWNS.
Weleetka, Okmulgee and Sapulpa
Now on the List, and Will Be
Visited By Indian Agent
On Dates Given.
On Wednesday night there arrived
in the city prominent citizens of the
towns of Okmulgee, Wcleetka, Sa
pulpa and Okemah, the object of their
visit being to induce if possible, the
Indian agent to divide up the Loyal
Creek payments' visit the towns
mentioned and pay out part of the
money.
The arguments used by some of
these gentlemen were to the effect
that in many cases the Indians would J
;iot have sufficient money to pay their
expenses to Muskogee, and in other
instances merchants had sold goods
to the Indians with the understand
ing that they were to be paid for
when this payment is made, and that
in order for tlYesc merchants to get
their money they must pay the ex
penses of the Indians to this city.
' Agent Shocnfelt concluded to
change the order, and accordingly
the payment will be made at the fol
lowing places on the dates named:
At Muskogee, October i to 8, in
clusivc. At Wcleetka, October 10 to 13.
At Okmulgee, October 14 to 20.
-At Sapulpa, October 21 to 22.
After the payment is completed at! and not one word
Sapulpa it will be resumed again in
Muskogee, and all told about $600,000
will be disbursed.
An Example of Dirt in Sango Bap
tist College.
In setting forth myself to the pub
lic, in order to have matters rightly
' understood, I do so after at least
twenty-four hours of thought and
consideration.
First, I desire to show how unjust
ly and unceremoniously I have been
dealt with in this institution.
On or about the middle of June,
1 was solicited by one of the trustees
Rev. L. J. Haywood, to 'put in my ap
plication for priuicpal of this school.
After an assurance that there was no
doubt about the election, I consented
for my name to be used. The Board
of Trustees was to have their meet
ing for the election of President and
Principal on the 18th of June. At
thus time or few days prior, I left for
Texas, but was asked by the above
named -trustee to return in order to
tbc here on tHc i8lh. Tiiis I com
plied with. Returning as per agree
ment I was elected Principal. There
seemed to have been some contention
with some as to the legality since
they claimed there was not a quorum.
'This same ground was gone over
again at another meeting of the board
on June 30th. The results were the
same as before. Thus the matter
'isnt on quietly till September the
26th, when matters took a sudden
change. I had understood from the
very first that I was Principal and
would serve in no other capacity.
On 26th of September I was for some
reason, not satisfactorily accounted
for, put out. This school is estab
lished, and has for one of its prime
objects, justice and right. Some of
these Trustees, when approached by
me, after having accomplished their
deviltry, attempted to shift the re
sponsibility to the shoulders of other
Trustees who were in the Board. One
of the members, Mr. J. Walter Davis,
protested against this dirty act, and
thus he is not in any way connected
with this piece of treachery, of which
history records few parallel cases. I
am ready to give to the public the
name of the Trustee who laid this
whole scheme. When a man is sen
tenced to be hanged he is given an
opportunity to prepare to meet his
God. Here is a case where a Chris
tian teacher, employed in a Christian
school, is refused the chances courts
allow, and that of one, a decent gam
bler, allows another. This is one of
the blackest, dirtiest, most hellish
pieces of injustice known to Chris
tian civilization. How do you ac
count for having known of the
change? You had me held in sus
pense for three months, waiting till
every school had been let, having me
to make canvasses from house to
house for the school, practicing
twenty-five or thirty voices for the
opening, both day and night up to
and including the 26th, at the same
time being closely associated with the
President of the Local Hoard, also
with1 the President of the institution,
did anyone ever
say to me with reference to the
change till they had kept me waiting
for thre meonths, taken up all my
time, and were the greedy recipients
of money I colected. Yet they tell
yon the basic principle of this insti
tution is religion. If such dirt and
trickery can be practiced by these
conspirators and public sentiment fail
to condemn it, then make the most of
it. Girls and boys may come out of
this school doing the same thing for
this is the way of their fathers.
If this article is answered and there
is any reflection upon my honor, I
will be heard from again, and un
cover things startling to the whole
people. This is a deep laid scheme,
and no one but a trickster and
schemer could have succeeded in its
accomplishment. Too many .promises
have been made without any sense
of the moral obligation. When any
man or set of men become so heart
less and unjust, blind to moral duties,
till they loose sight of justice and
right, they should be outlawed, thus
putting such dangers beyond the
reach of society.
This a Baptist institution, and Bap
tist dealing with Baptists, I would
not have received such treatment at
the hands of a denomination which
had for its worship some other Gods.
I ask the people to view this from
your standpoint were you likewise
treated. Viewing this in the ligh' of
intelligence, if any sane person dis
putes my position, I want to knw : meeting of men and wha are sup
who such person is. I have taught in -posed to be men and not Masons, be
the SoutTT under white Boards for -cause they were men who under no
cuiisiuerauon coulu be admitted into
a masonic grand lodge unless ma
sonry has sunk so low htat convicts
years, Kiit this blood sucking piece
of brutality is unsurpassed by any
thing of its kind known to modem
tricksters.
P. TAYLOR.
CONDITION THE SAME.
There was a meeting called at Ok
lahoma City on September 27, at
which meeting it was hoped that the
Masons of the two Territories might
get together and have one grand
lodge for the future state. There has
been considerable waring in the two
territories for the last wour years,
and a number were expelled from the
St. ojhn's grand lodge of Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory; and these
expelled members gathered them
selves together in two different
crowds and organized a spenous
grand lodge. One of the two sperious
grand lodges is presided over by G. I.
Curran of Dover, 1. T., and the other
one by H. E. Miller of Alderson, I.
T. The real grand master of the
two territories is J. C. Johnson of
Wcwoka, I. T., and the grand lodge
over which he presided is St. John's
grand lodge of Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory, and is the only one
that has a recognition of the Masonic
world. In the interest "of harmony
brother Johnson attempted to get tho
rebels from Oklahoma and the rebels
from the Indian Territory and vcmov
their disability and admit them to Si.
John's grand lodge of Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory. The rebels rz
fuse'd to accept the offer made by
Brother Johnson just as the rebels in
the sixties refused to accept the offer
of Abraham Lincoln that they might
get back into the Union. The war
will have to go and the rebels will
have to be brought Dack, if they ever
get back, in the same way as the old
rebels of the civil war got back into
the Union.
The Guthrie gang under the lead
ership of tTic rebel, Stewart, in our
opinion did all in their powcr'to pre
vent a reconciliation. And of course,
Cole and Perkins were there to do
their part. The courtesy extended by
these gentlemen to the people of the
Indian Territory was certainly not
one that is commendable. Of course,
of Afderson did not know where he
was at. He simply acquiesced in the
doings and directing of that arch
angel of rebellion,' Perkins, and nis
followers. To our surprise we found
in that gathering at Oklahoma City,
men who have been sentenced to the
penitentiary from this place, who
were ex-convicts, and these rebels
had gathered them up and attempted
to make Masons out of them. We
met others there who are now under
indictment from this Territory for
violating the law and who if caught
will certainly be sent to the peniten
tiary. And yet, this is the class of
fellows that the rcgels are gathering
into the Masonic lodges and asking
the world to recognize them as Ma
sons. We are glad to say that the
garnering mere was simply a massj
can gain admittance. There is no
one thing that injures our people so
much as that of picking up the crimi
nal, degraded, debaughed, element of
society and placing them in our sec
ret organizations. It seems that the
greed of some men for money is so
great that they shut their eyes and
can not sec the unworthiness of an
applicant and will admit him to their
lodges for a few paltry dollars. We
are glad to say that this is not the
case in St. 'John's grand lodge of Ok
lahoma and Indian Territories, and
we trust will never be the case. And
we know that these rebels' grand
lodges over which Curran and Miller
respectively preside, will neer be ad
mitted until they clean out the ras
cals who have recently worn felon
stripes and to whom no pardon has
ever been granted. It is with more
sorrow than resentment (hat we speak
of these things, and we know that the
rank and file of tne adherent of the
rebels do not know that they are
holding in the wrong, and the leaders
keep them blinded in order that they
may profit by their blindness. Wc are
neaiing the period in which Okla
homa and the Indian Territory will
be made one grand state, and we had
hoped that before that time that those
misguided men who ha'd gone from
right to wrong, would have seen their
error, and when the olive branch of
peace was otfered them they would
have gladly accepted. But, instead,
we f.iul that they are wedded to their
idols and it will take the iron force of
circumstances which will surround
them in 1906, to bring them back to
sanity. 4,
St. John's grand lodge tf Okla
homa and Indian TerriloL. '-" -continue
in the future .as a "has in
the past, and with jr. C. Johnson, the
grand master, at ..the helm we feel
sure that the day is not-distant to be
a member of our grand lodge will be
the desire of each and every one who -claims
to be a mason in the new state
of Oklahoma, including the misguided
fellowed who are now standing under
the sobriquet of rebels and expelled
members. The convicts who have
broken into each of these rebel grand
lodges, of course can never enter into
our grand lodge until their disabili
ties have been removed, we mean by
that until they are pardoned and their
citizenship restored by the president
of the United States, if then.
I give this to you for publication
Mr. Editor, as one of the rank and
file who were at the meeting and hold
ing no official position in our grand
lodge, but who was asked to report
for this paper.
(Signed) REPORTER.
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in the Southwest. Strictly up-to-date
and ready to accommodate the trav
eling public at all times. South side
of the track, oposite Frisco depot.
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