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VOLUME X.
f aiDNBY Huaoe,
l 1'HorBiRTon,
ABDMEE, IND. TEH., TUESDAY EVENING, EEI3JIUAHY JO, 1908.
SUBSGRIPHON. 55 A YEAR. NUMBER 81
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A TIDAL WAVE AND STORM IN
SOU" V ISLANDS.
Islands Are Devastated Storm Raged
for Several Days Pensons Swept
From Trees, Where They
Vainly Tried to Escape.
San Frnnclseo, Hob. 0. A great
storm liaa swont the South Sea Is
lands nml destroyed at IwuU a thou
sand livoe. ' The newt of which has
just reached her through the steamer
Mariposa, direct from Tahiti. On
January 13 an Immense tidal wavo, nc
comnanlod by a terrMlc hurrlcano,
fitruck tho Society Islands and the
Puamoto group with awful force, loav
Ing'death nnd doetructlon In its track.
Tho storm lasted sevornl days. It Is
bellevod that the eetlmato of n thou
sand lives lost will bo found to bo
not only correct, but poselbly many
moro mny bo added.
Tho -deaths occurred, on the Islands
of I loo nnd Hlkuor'a and Mokokan.
Tho Fronch govornmont, upon receipt
of tho news of tho dlsustor, dispatch
od two warships to tho Islands with
froeh wator and provisions.
Tho Italian man of war Calabria,
accompanlod by Trench ships. It Is
fearod that many lives will bo lost bo
foro rollef ships arrive. Among thoso
known to have been loet are Alexan
der Grnndor, N. 1. I'lunkett of Oak
land; T. D. Donnelly, formerly a fire
man on tho steamship Australia, and
tho local ngont of Copponrath, a imp
chant of l'apcepo. An unidontlflod wo
man killed horsolf from fright. Whou
tho tidal wavo struck tho islands tho
Inhabitants sought safety in trees, but
the waves washed thorn out to noa.
Many saved tholr lives by swimming
ntllo3 to the ncarost vessels.
RACE RIOT IN GEORGIA.
White a Go to Negro Festival and
Fire Into Crowd With Shotgnus.
Wnycrc.BS, Ga., Fob. 9. Mcagor do
tails of a liot which occurrod botween
two vhllo men and a crowd of nogroes
al ncocheu Still reached this city to
day.
Two negroos aro said to have been
killed and nlno othors woundod, ono
of them mortally. Thrco of tho wound
ed are womon, but tholr injurlos are
not serious. Tho shooting wbb dino
I. P. ARDKRSOH, B. F. FREN3LBY,
i.Preildsnt. Ylca Preildenf.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
M t me.
Aramore, inaian territory.
designated Depository (or Bankruptcy Funds m Chickasaw Nation.
Capital paid in $ 60,000.00
Surplus and Profits 140,000.00
Total .$200,000.00
The oldest bans: In Indian Torrltory. Accounts of firms and Individual,
solicited upon the moat llboraltermi consistent with Rood banking.
f ROBERTS, POLAND & BRUCE
INSURANCE.
REAL ESTATE.
W.S. WOLVERTON & SON
INSURANCE AGENTS.
while a negro festival h In progress
fihont il o'clock last night.
The report Is that two whlto men,
well known in that section, went to
the festival, and after having a llttlo
difficulty with soino of tho nogroos,
blocked tho doorways of the building
In which tho negroes rre dancing
and commenced firing into the crowd
with shotguns. The men are mid to
liavo fired shot nfter shot Into tho
writhing mass of humoraty. Tho house
was quickly cleared of afl ooccept aome
cf the wounded niul tiie men are mid
to have ontered the building and tll
Ue wounded negroes together.
An Inquest wns hold by the coroner
jn the dead bodies of the men tortny,
but his verdict has not yet been an
nounced. Meoches Still Is in Coffee country,
about twonty-tw4 miles from Way
cross. In this section of Coffee coun
ty several riots have occurred between
nogrqes tncl whites during tho last
ten years.
CHOCTAWS AT ATOKA.
Commercial Club Will Attend to the
; Red Men's Temporary Wants.
Atoka, I. T., Feb. 9. I-ast night Mr.
Noll came to Atoka in charge of twen
tytwo full blood Choctaw Indians from
Control Mississippi, and ns no hotel
accommodations had boon nrrnngod
Tor, Commissioner Halls tendored his
court room, .to tho Indians for the
night
The condition of those Indians la
not aB bad ns might bo, but thoy have
not a dollar with which to buy food
or teams for farming. Mr. Noll agrees
to stay with them until they find their
allotments, and thon ho will return' to
Mississippi for two weeks, after which
he will rottirn to tho Choctaw nation
and assist them in putting In farms.
Tho commorclal club at this placo
1b going to boo that tho Indians nro
Hblo to .:nd suelier. if tlm club has
lo buy orts and sroji.' them until
thoy can ' Md houses.
HONOR TO TOM RANDOLPH.
Sherman Banker Elected President of
Commonwealth Trust Co., St. Louis.
St.' Louis, Mo., Fob. 9. Tom Ran
dolph, prosldont of tho Merchants nnd
Planters National bank of Sherman,
Tox., was oloctod president of tho
Commonwealth Trust Co. today. Ho
will assumo tho duties of his now of
fice within tho next forty days, and it
is stated will rocelvo a salary of ?20,
000 as prosldent of Uio trust compa
ny. Mr. Randolph's election was part
of tho general reorganization of tho
company.
C. L. ANDERSON, 8. If . TORBEIT,
Cnhlsr. Aiit.Ciibr.
BONDS.
Too Late! Too Late!!
That's a bitter cry
on a bitter cold night.
Insure before you
have an accident, and
when it is too late to
cry; for the milk is
spilled
We Give You Protection
That Is What You Need.
ARKANSAS II Ifl
A STRIP 12,000 MILES SQUARE, OR
SEVEN MILLION ACRES.
Claims That This Strip, Forty Miles
Wide and 300 Miles Long Wa
Taken From Her and Qlven
to the Indians No Hope.
Wnsliliffctoti, Feb. 0. Responsive to
tiio instructions of the Arkansas leg
islature, Representative Mcltse today
Introduced a bill quite pertinent to the
agitation In' the Indian and Oklahoma
territories In the Interest of single
statehood. The bill provides for the an
nexation to the western boundary of
Arkansas of a strip of land forty miles
wide nnd some 300 miles long. In all
about 12,000 square miles, or 7.000,000.
Arkansas Jalms that the land
In question belongs to her, nnd was
Illegally taken from her nnd given to
tho Indians. That tho land onco be
longed to ArkhnsM there Is no ques
tion, but tho legality of Its trnnsfor
Is another matter. The act by which
tho transfer wag mado ii an Interest
ing chapter in the history of the state.
Arkansas was organised nB a terri
tory lu 1819. her boundaries at tho
tlmo being the present boundaries of
tho state. In 1SS-J, by act of congress,,
the western boundary of the stato
was oxtendod forty miles, thus ceding
to the territory a strip of land forty
miles wide and 300 miles long. In
1828 Secretary of War Jnmos Harbour,
by a treaty with tho chiefs of the Cher
okco nation, abolished tho boundary
lino which had boon established by
congress nnd gave this strip to tho
Indians. This treaty was ratified by
tho sonato, but caused an acrimonious
dobato, tlio chief point raised being
that congross hnd tho solo right to
dispose of United States torrltoryand
that tho secretory of war had no pow
er under tho constitution to dlsposo
by treaty of land which had already
been dlsposod of by congross. Sona
tor IlSnton of Missouri blttorly oppos
ed tho ratification of tho treaty on the
ground that It woe a flagrant violation
of tho constitution of the United Stntos
Senator Uenton wroto an interesting
chapter on this transaction In his
"Thirty. Years in tho Sonate." After
denouncing tho troaty as, violative of
tho rights of Arkansas and contrary
to tho constitution, ho complains tluit
(ho nmazlng featuro of the affair was
that It was dona by Southorn sonatora.
who at that tlmo woro nctivo ordinari
ly In opposing ovory moasuro which
Bought to limit tho area of tho slavo
torrltorys
Senator Calhoun waB presldont of
the senate, at tho time. Secretary
Harbour was a Southorn man, and
ninetcon slavo sonatora voted for tho
ratification of tho treaty, as against
C, R. JONES & BRO.
Successors
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'Ardmore, I. T.!
Capital Stek and Ailional Liability . . . . 12 OO.OOO.t
Largest olany Bank
Wb accept emnll and lame accounts and conduct a General Banking
Business for You, Farmers, stocktnenand other businessmen
mako onr office their hoadnuarters
OUK bank is a public institution and we advance tne ueut interests
of the peoplo and Rive their businoss our personal attention nnd
extond to them every facility consistent with safety to bank and cus
tomer.
Directors.
0. It. Smith, President.
0. M. Oampbell, Vico-Pres.
Leg Cuuce, Cashier.
Q. W. Younq, Stockman
J.0. Thompson, Attorney,
five slave senators who voted against
It, thus transferrins; 12,000 square
mile or slave territory to free territory.
The Arkansas legislature in asking
its senators and representatives to get
this territory back wis forth that Ar
kansas has for more than seventy
ytnrs slept upon her rights, thus de
priving her Pit lien of the use and ben
efit Of 7,000.000 acres of valuable and
ftuitt land; that the stato 1ms lost
millions of dollars which would have
bn collected In taxes, lost additional
rprsMntatkm in congress and that it
tlMrml before any action Is taken to
wn making a state of the Indlnn
Territory that this land be ceded
bnok.
Mr. Mcltae's bill looks to the reces
sion of tnls strip of valuable land to
M stale. Tho difficulty which seems
to bo lu the way Is that while the
treaty which took the land away from
Arkansas may have been uneomrtltu-
tlonnl, as Senator Denton clnlmed,
when Arkansas was admitted In 1836.
tho enabling act fixed the boundaries
of the state in nccordnnco with the
provisions of the Harbour treatv. thus
n Offoct vnlfdatlne the nrnvli
the fj-aaty itself. This. It Is believed,
will vrove nu obacle to tho eft..rls
cf tlij Ark.itiana Jo-cgntlon lu congress
io jrdi the land ha-.
7 he land In question is the most
.tillable portion I tho Indian Terrl
lory, and If Arkansas conM lencqulro
it, something llk-j .$70,000,000 of valuo
would be addod to her wsal'h while
ho. tea would bo Increased by nearly
Iwcnly per cent.
It I safe to say. however, that the
itati'l of limitation has pt the Ar
kansas claim to sleep, for at least at
this, late day congress is not llkoly to
glvo Arkansas nnythlng llko 7,000,000
acres of valuablo land In Indian Ter
ritory. FELL DEAD FROM WAGON.
Negro Dleo Suddenly Heart Disease
the Cauoo Attributed.
Special 'Phono to tho Ardmoroito.
Ilorwyn, I. T., Feb. 10. A. S. Stonh-
onn, colored, foil dead from his wagon
yostow'uy nt Caddo. Physloians who
oxamined him stato that death was
caused from hoart dlsoaso.
Ex-Gov. Flshback Dead.
Llttlo Itock. Fob. 9. Formor C.nv.
ornor FJshbaok died todny at his homo
In Fort Smith of paralysis. Ho was
iz years or ago. Ho was wldoly
known ns tho nuthor of tho Flshback
amondmonta by which tho legislature
la forblddon over to pay cortaln bonds
issued during tho reconstruction' per
iod.
Young Pleads Guilty.
Now York, Fob. 9. Wm. Ifoopor
"ioung, on trial for tho murder of Mrs.
Anna Piilltzor, today pleaded guilty
io muriior in tho second degreo and
was sontoncod to llfo lmnrisonmont.
No trouble to own a good gun. Wll
Hams, Corhn & Co. hav mado tho buy
lng easy.
to G, R. JONES.
I
In the Chickasaw Nation.
when in Ardmoro.
0. It. Jonkb, Wholesale and Retail
Furniture.
Sasi Noble, Wholesalo Hardware,
J, It. Pennington, " Grocer.
It. W. Random, Merchant.5
MM
ini.
INT
IE REALIZES IT MORE THAN DO
HIS OPPONENTS.
It Lies In the Czar-Like Power of the
Speaker Who Can Refuse Any
Representative Recognition on
the Floor to Consider Dills.
Spoclnl to the Ardmoretta.
Washington, Feb. 9. Delegate Mar-
ens Auretlits Smith of Atisonn, one of
thb most brilliant men over sent to
congress by any constituency, today
says: "My peoplo Indignantly resent
all of these offers of compromise on
statehood. They plainly nnd emphat
ically decline to bo admitted to tho
union Siamese twinned with New
Mexico. Nevertheless thero seoms
to bo n determined disposition
to compel ns to coma into the unlomln
that manner. Wo people of tho terri
tories are helpless In tho mntter."
Senator Quay realizes one weak
point lu his fight a weak point
which nil others have overlooked. He
will have a. majority In the sennto of
the Flfty-olghth congross, and would
not npprohond any troublo whatever
on that score from an extra bosbIoii.
Hut there 1b ono woalt point In tho ar
mor of tho loader for tho omnibus bill.
and ho ronlUos that moro keenly than
do Ills opponents of statehood.
Congressman Cannon of Illinois Is
already solected for tho position of
speaker of tho houso of roprosentn
tlvos lu tho noxt congross. That Is to
say a majority of Uio ropubllcnn mem
bers of tho houso havo declared that
thoy will support him. Consequently,
whon tho noxt congross shall moot,
whothor It bo In oxtra session or or
Unary session. Mr. Cannon will bo
oloctod speaker of that body. Noth
ing but his death can provont it, and
ho la In good health.
Tho Bpoakor of tho houso of ropre-
sontatlvos has tho 'ocrntlc powor
to appoint all of tho chairmen and
mombors of nil of tho committees of
Uio house, and ho will bostow thoso
Important favors only on thoso who
J. A. BIVENS, President
A. H. PALMER, Cashier.
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK
AFrDivrcsFE:. i. -tj
Capital and Surplus $100,000.00,
Accounts ot nrms anO individuals
Arrnrdnil
usePLANSIFTER
HIG1H PATENT FLOUR
It Is the Best
W WHALEY MILL & ELEVATOR CO.
The First National BAnk
of Marietta, I. T.
Established, 1896
Offers to depositors every facility which their balancca, businea
and responsibility warrant.
Directors
Judge Overton Love
Geo. M. D. Holford
Jas. A. White
E. F. Graham H. A. kirkpatrick
Your Grocer Will Get It for You.
Getting You.
ALBATROSS
The Bust Flour.
WHITEMAN BROTHERS, Wholesale Distributors,
ARDnORE, INDIAN TERRITORY.
will stand by him and support him
In nil his policies.
Moreover, mark ye, no member of
the houso of roprosontativos onn got
recognition In coramlttoo or on tho
floor of the houso for tho consideration
of any bill vvhatovor unless tho speak
er is Inclined to favor him. Do yon
see what power that Is for ono man to
wield 7
Well, Mr. Cannon is opposed to tho
omnibus bill, nnd when ho Is speaker,
It will be well nigh impossible to got
another omnium bill through tho houso
of representatves. whlto the spoakor
actively opposes It. And, you must
know, that no bill can becomo a taw
without passing both the sennte and
houso of representatives. Therefore
you may aeo why Senator Quay may
be Inclined to wlBoly nccept a compro
mise, rather than allow tho ontlro bill
to fnll, and then run up against that
hnrd proposition In tho noxt congress.
the almost cxnr-llko powor of tho
speaker who Is opposed to tho bill In
its entirety. This weak Joint In tho
nrnior Is all that makoa Quay fool llko
accepting a compromise, rathor than
nothing.
And yet ho hopes to get tho omnibus
bill through without any Bort ot a
compromise
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Lots .
Somo very flno building sites, fa
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city. Sco about them if you intend
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The Rerifield Agency,
Real listntc, Rents, Loans.
Phone i3i. Ardmore, Ind. Ter.
DON LACY, Vice-President
W. A. WOLVERTON, Asst. Cashier.
solicited, Courteous treatment-. "'
all nlllra. " i rt ''
Holmes Willis
Jas. N. Kirkpatric
W. S. Derrick
J. G. Butler
Insist on him
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