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Vol 5.
Muskogee, Indian Territory, Thursday, August
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Number 43
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CHEROKEE OFFICERS
ARE LOCATED HERE.
Freedmen Desiring to be Enroll
meni Must Come to This
City. ,
The freedmcn desiring to have their
names included on the Cherokee rolls
will now be compelled to leave their
nation and come fo Muskogee.
Cherokee Attorneys Davenport and
Bell have opened offices on the third
floor rA the Dawes Commission building
urcl have brought all the official docu
ments over from Tahlequah. In the fu
ture all evidence and argument as to the
right of f recdmen to be enrolled will be
heard and determined there. There are
as yet some 400 who have not been ad
mitted by the Daws Commission, and
750 applications passed by the commis
sion whic have not yet been passed up
on by the Secretary of the Interior.
The Tahlequah Herald, in its last issue,
says: "There is a rumor afloat that
Chief ttogers was not at all well pleased
with the manner in which the attorneys
for the Nation, having charge of the
i recdmen division of the worlc have- been
attending to business, and that he thou
ght the Nation was getting the worst f o
the businesc, yet what evidence the
chief had in this codncotion was not
pivulgod.
"At any rate, the freedman will now
have to hit the pike for Muskogee and
butt in on Attorneys ITooley Bell and
James 6. Davenport, who have charge
of this division." -Phoenix.
Colored Teacker Appointed, Creek Nation
Fo lowing are the appontments of
teachers for colored neighborhood
echo jls in the Creek Nation as made by
Supervisor Alice Robertson and Super
intendent Cheesie Mcintosh and ap
proved by Superintendent J no. D. Ben
edict. Ash Creek, Miss Lizzie Jefferson;
Black Jack, Miss 3. E. Marchnt: Cher
ryville, John H. Wright; Biush Hill,
Mrs. J. E. Cri instead; Blue Creek, Mrs
C. A. Hunter; cano Creek, John Hou
ston Parker; Chicken Creek, W. A.
Randall; Coul Creek, Mrs. E. N. J.
Sims; Coon Creek, Mrs. Fannie L. Lav
ender; Marshalltown, Charles A. Eig
gere; Now Hopo, Lelah C. Diggers;
New Paradise, Odessa A. King; Old
Agency, llattie T. Davidson; Salt
Creek, J A. Anderson; Spring Hill,
J.N. B. Wall; Spring Valley, J. E.
Douglass; Sugar Creek, S. Sinn; Wild
Cat, W. G. McGowan; Pleasent Grove,
C. C. Byrd; Willow springs, Cora Lee
Welch; Beggs, Bessie E. Hill; Rentie,
Willio May Poston, Oak Ridge, Pearson
S. Br -ant; Oak Grove, A. L. W. Shiol
ds: Mount Bethel, Mattio M. Smith;
Mprxis Ronty, Carrie M. Watson.
ffAU the above teachers woro appointed
, upon certificates from the late Normal,
L nrnffirnnnn in nnnnintmnnt heinir iriven
. -.4?v to.tljose making the best grades.
'GIVE US YOUR
SUBSCRIPTION.
RENTIE ITEMS,
Rentie, I. T., July 30. Crop
are boking fine in the vicinity
and grown cotton -bolls are no
strangers.
When at Uentie call on JV H.
Reeves for groceries of all kind
and cold drinks uf the best kind,
prices to suit your pocket, and
groceries and drinks to suit your
appetite.
Rev. D. D. Spots the A. A1. E.
pastor is doing a good work here.
Rev. Spots is an amendment to
our past religeous constitution -"The
right men in the right
place."
There was quite an interesting
entertainment given at the Mas
onic Hall last night (Thursday
night) for the purpose of raising
money to hely defray the expenc
es of Masonic delegates to the
Worlds Congress to be held in
St. Louis, Mo.
Do.i't forget the grand barbe
cue to be given at Rentie on Aug
4th 1904. Come one come all.
Rev. D. D. Spotts and and del
lgate to the S. S. Convention will
leave for Grayson City on Aug
ust 8th 1904, where they will tend
the A. M. E., S. S. Convention.
J. H. Reeves is putingin a new
stock of groceries which he will
Sell almost at cost for 90 day?
call in and see him when in Rent
ie he will treat you right.
J. H. Reeves is Postmaster at
Rentie, I. T. and is doing good
business in every way as ha9
been said: "The Ne6ro is a thing
of ths past" but he is being used
in the present, now.
Prof. J. H Higg9 will leave
Rentie for Parsons Kansas to day
on business and will probably be
gone for eight or ten days.
Prof. J. H. Reeves P. M. at
Rentie was over to Muskogee a
few days ago attending to free
8chool business and think the
school will open about tlie first
Monday in September. Monitor.
Mr. Editor: In the fight for
postmaster now on. I believe
that the best interest of all con
cerned would be to stay with the
past few years and who has filled
the position with credit to him
self and his party. Mr. Esten is
a good republican and has made
a splendid officer and I believe
he should be retained for the en
suing term. He is an old soldier
and a firm friend of the soldiers.
There is not a blot on his record.
Henry Burnside,
FEDERAL OFFICERS TO
PROTECT NEGROES
At Hcldenvilla Arrests Have
Been Made, the InfraetionistF
to be Punished, and the Town
Purged of Negro-Phobia.
"I want the people of Holden
viile to understand that they can
not run Negroes out of town af
ter they are there, just because
they are Negroes, or keep them
from coming there if they desire
to do so." Mellette.
The stand taken by the U. S.
Attorney. Hon. Wm. Mellette in
the Holdenville' affair, and his
support by the balance of the
court officials, is condemnable
and shows that the officials in
this Western District from Judge
to constable, are in favor of en
forcing the law and are in favor
of justice and right. These are
the same men that have been
designated by the black allies of
democracy as the "Court Gang."
And it was by using this cry that
Isaac and his tools succeeded in
cefeating a republican for office.
Now if this outfit arj notnoward
ly cusses, why don't they name
they name that part of the Court
House Gang that they were so
bitterly opposed to? If it were
not for the people who are ac
cused and abused by the crowd
of political buccaneers, and pi
rates these same' pirates would
hot-foot it from the Territory in
the dignified manned that they
shinned out of Texas and Ar
kansas and Texas when the op
pressor was after him with his
bull wnip and his crown of thorns
And now the same cusses are
going into the Democratic party
and hunting for the Thirty Piooes
of Silver; and like the thief, in
the big city, who is chased by
the officers stop and point at
some honest man and yell, "Stop
thief." The whole gang have
been caught in their figers at the
men who supported the ticket
and yelling, "Stop thieves."
Hsher & White,
DENTAL PARLORS
Reeias 5-7-9, Car Una Building.
CORNER THIRD AND OKMULGEE.
We use the best material and do high
grade work at prions within reach of
all SDeeial prices on gold crowns and
bridge work Have your theoh saved bo
foro its too late.
The Best Advertising Medium
through which you can reach the
colored people is "The Cimeter."
COLORED MASS CONVEN
TION. Mr. Editor : Please give space
to this short note, in order to cor
rect a published statement ap
pearing in last issue of a paper
published in this city, called
.'The Muskogee Cimoter." The
editorial of the paper in question,
that the call published for a mass
conveotioe of colored citizens of
the Indian Territjry, is inspired
for opposition to the Republican
party in the territories, and that
it is in the interest oflily-whitism
I wish to say, as 1 am chairman
in flinf nnll for Hift 10th of All -
: gust, that the call is wholly void
I jf the slightest foundation, The
convention is for the purpose of
memorializing the senate of the
United States on behalf of the
colored people of the proposed
new state, that the suffrage pro
vision of the pending statehood
bill, be retained as it passed the
house of representatives. Ex
perience has shown that the col
ored voter has been the chif suf
ferer, whenever political restric
tions are appled in any state, and
in this feature of the pr.esent bill,
the callers of the convention feel
that tho colored men are more
directly interested in its pasace;
and to. that end the mass conven
tion is called. It is also proposed,
that steps are to be formulated
in that convention looking to a
thorough organization of the
colored Republicans
throughout tho Territory, which
organizations are to workuuder
control and jurisdiction of the
recognized Republican commit
tees now existing in the Indian
Territory Any other purpose
attributed to tho oallers of the
proposed convention on the 10th
is a great injustice to the callers
and likewise the putlic in.gener
al. Respectfully,
Cornelius J. Jones.
Pheonix.
Another dodge. If Jones means
what he says, why did he call a
convention of republicans, why
was tho call made for other than
colored men. Tho above letters
are in diroct opposition each to
the other. Read his call and then
read his letter and any fairmind
ed person will admit that Corne
lius tho Great is making a splen
did attempt to straddle.
Go to J J .
CREEK
Livery Barn,
Now looated at new quarters
No. 512 South 3rd Street.
Pkno 7fi opposite Cilli Smidvr'
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