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III AUDMORK, I. f ., WKDNKSOAY EVENING, NOVEMBER I I, 11)0(5. " NIT1W13ER Vtf
VOLUME
SENATORS
TAKING NOTES
HEARING AT VINITA AS TO IN
AN MATTERS IN PROOR SC.
Will Devote Entire Time to Business
In Hearing Addrettses and Griev
ances at Various Points for Fu
ture Ute Indian Delegates
Present.
Vlnlta. I. T., Nov. 13. The congres
sional commltteo to tuvostlgnto, main
ly tho removal ot restrictions from
Indians), the advisability of proposed
disposition of surface segregated coal
and iisphult land and modification of
oil land leases In Indian Territory,
arrlver nt noon from Kansas City. Of
tho commlttoo there nri Senators
Clark of Wyoming. Long of Kansas,
Urnndcgeo cf Connecticut nnd Tcllor
of Colorado. Scnntor Clark 01 Mon
tana will Join tho others In Muskogee
Thursday.
The committee is accepting no spec
ial attention, as their entlro tlmo In
tho territory Is 10
hearing addretsaeB at the various
points to ho visited and cthurwlso ac
quiring complete Information on tho
subjects mentioned.
Sessions were held this afternoon
and tonight In the commercial club
rooms. A large number of represen
tatives from other towns, mainly o'
commercial organizations, nro here to
present eacli question in its division.
This was arranged at a general
meeting somo weeks ago. Othor and
a greater number of roprosentntlvoB
will meet the committee In Musko
gee. There were nlso prcsont quito a
number of full blood Indians from tho
Cherokee, Creek nud Choctaw nations,
fomo of whom traveled 100 miles to
attond the hearing.. TUcso ara unalter
ably opposed to tho land allotment,
wivo one, Joseph Fox, a Cherokee full
blood, living near Vluita, who express
ed himself as favoring what had al
ready been accomplished.
Tho committee was treated to a nov
el experience In bolng addressed by
these Indiana through an interpreter.
Tho full bloods here reprehent 2i,O0u
of their class, somo of whom belong
to tho bands of Crazy Snake and Kcc
toowah, recently made famous in the
Creek and Chejokeo nations through
their dimcultics with tho government.
All of thorn insist they have accepted
no allotment.
Wbilo tho Bchedulo of tho commit
tee's work only contomplatcs certain
phases of tho Indian question, many
othors, Including what Is believed to
he needed legislation, navo been heard
and accepted today.
A large delegation arrived today
from tho Quapaw ugency, loeuted in
tho extremo northeastern portion of
tho territory, and in which thcro nro
tho romnants of eleven Indian tribes.
The Curtis IHH'b provisions do not nf
fect tribes living within tho ngoncy.
Removal of restrictions was urged be
foro tho committee by Judgo J. W.
Harly, nn Ottnwa Indian; M. D. Poor
er, chief of tho Ottawas, nnd Oeorgo
W. Finley, a Peoria Indian. They
wero nccepted as gcnoral representa
tives of all tho tribes In tho Quapaw
agency. S .C. Fullorton of Miami pre
sented tho mnttor of all sales of Ind
ian lands In tho Quapaw agency here
tofore made, bolng ratified by congres
sional enactmont.
W. H. Kornegay of Vlnlta, member
of tho constitutional convention from
this district, asked that there bo
Mmo law passed determining wha.
congress Intended through tho law af
fecting Kansas Indian tribes, valid
ating all marriages prior to the period
of leaving that state, ns tho property
in probato for somo of theso tribes Is
in a clouded condition. Tho tribes
affected rcsldo In Quapaw agency.
M. M. lidmlston of Miami urge''
porno definite stipulation in tho term
of mineral land leases in that agency,
whoro thoro nro valuablo lead and zinc
deposits.
At present leases may bo perpet
uated Indefinitely. This matter
brought forth tho first Inquiry on tho
part of tho committee as to the Indi
ans' capability in handling thlr per
sonal affairs, Joqkins, jo ,th" removal
of restrictions, 'othing wns asked
Jooklng' to a chango in the law affect
ing tho mineral daposlts or furthor
restricting tho sole thereof. Chester
Howe of Washington, attorney for th
Hunec.is. declared them competent u i
tho nvcragp white farmer, and nskeil
relief from restrictions Tho full
bloods, who took up a greater portion
cf tho' afternoon, protested vigorous!
against the allotment of lnnds and In
voIohI the provisions of the treaty ot
183G In establishing their claim to the
Indian Territory in fee before the coin
mlttee.
It developed that tho full bloods
nro banded togother to resist tho gov
ernment's latest move. The provisions
of their understanding they refuse to
violate, oven upon tho suggestion of
tho committee that they accept their
quotas of ground. Willis F. Tobyn.
a full blood Choctaw of Coulgnto, I.
T represented his tribe lu making
the protest.
Tho congressional committee nt the
evening session listened to more ora
tory from tho full-bloods, delivered
through Interpreters. Rod lllrd Smith,
Cherokee, of Campbell, I. T., further
prosecuted tho claims of that tribe, at
the completion of which ho presented
tho commltteo with a largo englo fea
ther, emblematic of the trlbo's dcslr-
for pcaco and friendship.
Achwnl l'ortor, a full blood Chlckn
Baw from Conway, . T., appeared as
a, delegate from his trlbo and in quite '
a speech characterized tho allotment
as nn unwarranted procedure. Jo!.!'
Conitassel and Richard Glory, Chero
kee full bloods, tho first and only two
who could, speak English, arguod for
the removal of restrictions from the
Indian surplus lands. This Inn. I I
i;ow Idle and will remain so under the
present system.
Tho public school, as it relates to
tho five civilized tribes, was offer
ed by Rev. A. Orant Kdwards of Henry
Kendall collcgo nt Muskogee. He
spoke on tho present emergency and
the dlfllculty in making proper provis
ion for education In the rural districts
and the transfer of Indian chlldiuu
from tho support of tho government in
behalf of tho tribes to that of the new
state on the question of education un
der statehood, in view of tho peculiar
condition which must prevail in Indian
Territory. Ho estimated tho scholastic
lopiilatlon of Indian Territory towns
to bo 150,000, and lu tho entlro terri
tory the illiterates to be 26 per cent
ns ngalnBt .1 per cent lu Oklahoma.
lit) pointed out tho necessity, of a quar
ter of a mllllou dollar consresslonnl
appropriation to meet tho situation
until the new government could take
cburg".
Ho proposel tho use ot tho of'O
000 Intended by ;ho government to
ward the Indlun Territory evhw l fund
in the purchase of tho coal mines iti
the southern part of tho territory
nnd their future operation by tho new
state lu the intorost of the public free
schools.
Tomorrow the commltteo hopes to
confine tho arguments to tho removal
of restrictions nud on tho rules nnd
regulations as prescribed by tho inter
ior department for tho leasing of the
land for oil nnd gas mining purines.
There nro quito a number to pre
sent the former question, while Soy
mour Riddle, president of the Vlnl
i Commercial club, will present the
Intter.
KENTUCKY BISHOP ILL.
Bishop Key of Sherman, Tex., Takes
His Place at Tulsa.
Tulsa, I. T., Nov. 13. Bishop J. J.
Tlgert of Ixiulsvlllo, Ky., who w.ib to
preside over tho'nnnual conference of
the Indian Mission of tho M. E.
church, South, In session hero this
week, bus been ill at Atoka, I. T.
for several days, and Bishop J. S.
Key of Sherman, I. T., will officiate
until tho recovery of of tho regular
presiding officer. Ono feature of tho
conference will be tho changing of
tho name to that of tho Oklahoma
conference. Owing to tho size of this
mission, which comprises both terri
tories, there is talk of division into
two or three equal Jurisdictions.
Wants Marriage Annulled.
15y Assoclatod Press.
Paris, Nov. 14. Priuco Amedc
do llrogllc, father of Prince Robert
de Ilroglie hns filed a demand for tho
annulment of hlB (ton's marrlago with
Miss Estollo Alexander of California.
Ily Associated Press.
Now York, Nov. 14. Prince Dobrog
II eand, w.lfoare now touring In vaudu
vtUu In this counto'i during the' prin
cess' singing act, her husband' 'ton
ducta tho orchestra.
WATCHING
FOR BLUNDERS
REPUBLICANS HOPE FOR A CON
STITUTIONAL I8SUC.
Errors Doubtless Will Be Made, and
This ic All the Consolation the
Defeated Ones Can Find In
the Election Returns.
Guthrie, Oklu., Nov. 13. The only
coubolatlou Republican party manag
ers are finding in tno result of the
election of delegates to tho consti
tutional convention Is the fact tlint
tho Democratic party will bo respon
sible In eiery way for making the
constitution. No poll t ten 1 party lh Infal
lible) and tho Democrats will make
blunders. bliuidorn that may be of ns
sihtante to the Republicans in future
campaigns.
Unlike what a legislative assembly
may do, tho work of tho constitution
al convention will bo permanent, and
cannot be changed without amend
ment by tho people, thus maintaining
from campaign to campaign tho de
fects upon which the RepubllcaiiH
hope to muko capital. Prohibition,
control of railroads nnd trusts, tho
race ipiestlonll n system of taxation,
tho initiative and referendum, elec
tion methods, otc, will be somo cf tho
things -for which tho Democrats will
bo responsible.
"This is a narrow view to take in
a mutter of such vast importance to
the people," said n republican politi
cian, "but It nolougs to tho fortunes
of politics and would bo seized Just
ns quickly by tho DemccralH if the
Republicans wero making the consti
tution." As the constitution will be based
on fundamental law, It Is prclictc
that ono of the early features of tho
convention will bo the opposition ot
northern nnd southern Democrats to
eucli other. In pa'it campaigns It hun
been found that tho difference be
tween these two Classen of Democdati
tiro almost as radical as tho differen
ces between northen Democrats and
Republicans. Tho difference Is ono ot
temperament nugmented by social
and commercial peculiarities. Tho
fear of both liberal southern nnd
northern Democrats in tho siato Ih
that n division may nriso between
these two wlqgs of tho party that will
cause constant trouble In future cam
paigns. The slogan of Democracy, the nom
ination of candidates by tho prima
ry system, will provoke strife if of
fered for Insertion -tii CTio constitution
and undoubtedly It will bo presented.
In past campaigns the Oklahoma dem
ocratic county organizations have ex
perimented with the primary system
of nomination, only to abandon it af
ter finding that It tended to array tho
rural against tho town voters. This
wns tho experiencu of Kay county
Democrats. If tho weather on election
day Is bnd, the town voter finds no
great Inconvenience in walking a
block or two to the polls, but tho
country voter stays at homo rather
than ride iflhllo or tnoro in tho cold
and rain. Tho result is' that tho town
candidates are nominated and the ru
ral candidates defeated. In a short
time tho town it ml eouutry voters nro
fighting each other.
In tho last election whore tho lr;
mary system of nomination was em
ployed, especially In towns thtf. lay
In more than one district, voters tnu'i
part In Democratic primaries and
then participated In Republican con
ventions, their conduct being govern
ed by local Issues. Democratic dclu
gates who will bo factors lu the con
vention say that under a prlmarv
nominating system thcro would bo tto
check to this kind of political manip
ulation, that It would bo dangerous to
successful campaign management.
Under tho convention system, no vo
jter would daro sa in both a Demo
cratic and Republican convention.
Family Burned to Death.
Dy Associated Press.
Coldwater, Mich, Nov. II. Mrs.Chas
Mowry and three children, tho oldest
six years of nge, wero burned to
death oarly today at their homo on
tho farm near Ilatavla station.
Call for Bank Statements.
Dy Associated Press.
Washington, Nov, l'j, The comptro!
lor has Issued a call for a statement
of the condition of national 'batiks nt
the close of business NoTOtnber. 12.
NEGROES ARE
COUNTED OUT
THREE COMPANIES OF lrNTY
SIXTH INFANTRY ARE OUT.
The Negroes Gave No Trouole and
Everything is Quiet it Fort Re
no Tears 3!td By Many Vet
eransLone Service.
Kl Reno, Okln., Nov. II. Tho three
negro coirmnnlott of .h,i Socoial bat
talion of the Twenty K lulniitry,
were discharged at Fot : no last
night by tho or.ier of President
Roosevelt. They wen' imbued tr.uii
the service becnuse it una nlloged
they refused to ruvonl tilt) identity ot
the men who "allot up' Brownsville,
TiAUh. last summer
Tin- nes;roon gn-. .. n.i irjubio.
Many of them were voteraim In the
service. Charles Dane. or Omp.ii.v D.
has been a soldier for 22 years.
Another veteran of Company I) ams
first Hergonnt, Urael Harris. Ho was
In his full dress uniform and the ci
vice Klrfpes on his sleeve nearly lin
ed tno space from elbow to wrist.
.Many of tho soldiers shed loats n
they watched their arms being pack
ed In tho gun cases and Fealed. Thoy
talked ot nothing but their discharge.
Most of thorn nro completely disheart
ened nnd have no plans for tho fu
ture. Tho twelve men of tho throo cut
panics who hnvo been held undor nt
rest at San Antonio slnco the rl f .
weru'iiot brought, to Fort Reno. Tin:1
will be discharged from there.
Sxn Antonio. Texas. Nov. 13. Fort
Sam Houston received orders from
Washington today to dlschargo with
out honor from tho army tho twelve
negro soldier members, ot Companies
II, C and D, 2Cth infantry, who nro
now in prison at tno fort charted
with rioting and murder at Ilrowus
villo, Texas.
The discharge will be mad at
once.
BENEFIT A SUCCESS.
Several Dollars Added to the Fire
men's Fund by Show Last Night.
Tho Ardmoro flrn department was
In charge or tho IJIJott theater last
evening. Tho management of that
theater put on a benollt for tho fire
department and as tho result the
house was crowded. AtJ tho first
show thcro was tho largest attendance
the HIJou hns over had. while at the
second performance tho uoitfio was
again full. Tho department received
twenty-llvo percent of nil receipts and
got 25.I0 from Mio entertainment.
A handsome prizo hail been offered
to the lady selling tin: greatest num
ber of tickets. Mrs. Ruck Garrett was
the winner of this prize, she having
sold 219 tickets. There were four
articles from which sbo had to choose
her prize and Mrs. Garrett chose n
bandhome gold handled umbrella.
HORSE THIEVES GIVE TRUUolE.
Exchange Shots With Negro Farmer
While Endeavoring to Steal.
Information has been received that
Al Davis, n negro farmer living nine
miles east of Ardmoro, exchanged
about twenty shots Monday morning
with a party of horso thlovos ho dls
covered in his horse lot.
Davis was awakened by tho neigh
taglng of his horses nnd going to tho
lot found several men preparing to
make away with his stock. Ho tired
several shots as they were running
off.
CoiisMcrnblo trouble has been ex
perienced by tho residents of the
Nlcklo Hill Hettlemont of late by
horse thieves, Ono man living near
Davis lost two horses only a nlgh,
ex- two ago. From what Davis stated
there were soveral men In tho party
all mounted. Ins timely arrival pre
vented his losing his stock as others
hnvo dono. Tho bund of thieves la
thought to bo tho same tho deputy
marshals have been trailing for tho
past two weeks.
Had a Closi Call.
"A dangerous surgical oporatlon, In
volving tho removal of n malignant
ilcer. ns largo as my hand, from my
laughters' hip wns prevented by tho
application of Bucklon'n Arnica
Salve," says A. C. Stlckel of Miletus,
W. Va. "Persistent use of. tho Salvo
completely c'ured It." Cures Cuts,
rturns nnd Injuries. '2&C at. City Drug
Store, W. D Frami pruKBlst,
THAW A NERVOUS WRECK.
Prominent Lawyers Refuse to Take
Millionaire Murderer's Case.
New Tork, Nov. 13. D. M. Dclmns.
the California lawyer, ongagol as
chief councel for Harry K Thaw, wild
today that he had visited Thaw In
his cell lu the Tombs prison nnd
found hi m a nervoim wreck. Mr.Del
inns snld:
"Judging from my single interview
with him which took place yesterday
nftcrnoou, tho young man Is laboring
tinder great excitement nnd Is evi
dently of n high nervous tcmpern
itient. "It is true," said Mr. Dclmns, "that
some tlmo ago Joseph II. Choato was
approached in behalf of Mr. Thaw by
his Pittsburg attorney, David II. Wat
son. Mr. Choato declined a retainer's
fee.
".lohu I-:. Parson nlso was approach
ed but lie declined to take tho enco
on the ground that ho wnti too old for
such tervlco. Now, so far as I know,
therel lwlncboMii . .wuyou.taolitaol'i
there will be no other New York law
yer concerned.''
Mr. Dolmns said that ho had not
been Informed when tho enso would
ho called but helloved that It would
come up sonio tlmo In December.
VICTORY FOR COUNTESS
SUDDEN ENDING OF CELEBRAT
ED CASTELLANE CASE.
Countess Is Granted Divorce and Cus
tody of Her Children Count's
Demand for Annual Allowance
of $50,000 Is Denied.
Uy Associated Pro?.
Paris, Nov. I. Countess do Castel
lano was today granted n divorce and
tho custody of her children, who,
however, mny not bo ullowed to be
taken from France without tho con
sent of their father.
Tho end of the famous case enmo
suddenly. The, court brushed aside n
demand of tho count'H lawyers fdr
examination of wlthosnoH, and tho
public prosecutor did not oven ask to
be heard.
The count Is given tho right to hoo
his children at stated periods nnd
may keep them a month annually
during tho holidays.
Tho count's demand for an allow
ance of $50,1100 annually was re
jected. Judgment wns g. - with costs
against the count.
PORSE AFTER BAD NEGRO.
Shot and Killed Two Policemen,
Wounds Police Captain and Negro.
Ily Assoclatod PrCBs.
Ahlivllle, N. C Nov. II. A posse
Is today scouring tho country for a
negro believed to bo Will Hnrris, who
last night shot and killed Policeman
Illntkstock nnd Halley and wounded
Police Captain Pago and a negro.
fBrillnrNfi.
I inn IK) friend to tho people who re
celvo the homilies of Provldcnco with
out visible gratitude. When tho sis
pence rails Into your hat you mnj
lautili. When the messenger of nn un
expected li!eslng takes you by tli
IiiiiiiI and lifts you up nml bids you wn:
you may leap and run and sing fo
p.v, even ns the lame man whom Si
I'ejor healed skipped piously and ic
jolccd ulmiil us he passed throng)) tli
beautiful gate of the temple. There i
no virtue lu solemn indifference. Jo:
In in miieli n duty as bpnellceuce If
VhankriiliiesH Is iho other side of mer
ey. Henry Vnii Dyke.
I'nrl.-il lliirllriiltiirr.
"A new nillkninn left our milk to
Jay," (iimouuccd Dorothy.
. "Did be have whiskers';" asked hri
mother, thinking perhaps It wns tin
proprietor.
"No." said the four-year-old; "he
didn't have v.-hlsUern. but he had t lie
rontH."-Harpor's Weekly.
Why Hlie Touliln'l.
"No, I didn't havo u very good time,"
she said. "I wanted to talk, and there
wasn't a man there."
"Hut there wero plenty of other
girls."
"Oh. of eourhe, but that wns no sat
icfnetlon, for they nil wanted to talk
too."
Castro Reported Dead,
Ily Assoclatod Press.
Foit do Franco, Island of Mai Unique
Nov. U.-TjPirsldcnt. Castro of Venczu
els (sitroporjcd dead.
" i .
TASK AHEAD
OF GREELEY
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT BU
REAU8 NEED OVERHAULING.
ihould the Present Commissioner of
Corporations Succeed Secretary
Hitchcock General Office Is In
for a Good Shaking Up.
Washington, Nov. II. It la tao
opinion hero should Jntnort R. OarfleU
iieeoino secretary ot the Interior to
succeed Secretary Illtcncock, nu luw
been Intimated, thcro wnl bo a thor
ougli overiiaullng ot tho buslnoss
metnoils and the poraonnol lu tho n
ilotis burcatifi of that department.
Secretary Hitchcock Hindu uo hlx
...in in ivii.e iioiii tno eauuiet somo
tlmo ago. Having got a good start in
his tireless work pursuing nnd prose
outing land gr.iftora, ho had dotonu
Ined upon n ro-organlzntlon ot his
department about tho tlmo tho Keop
commission undertook Ita Investiga
tion there by direction or tho prtul
dent. Tho Keep commission, in ita
report bearing upou tho Interior de
partment, Informed the president
among otuer things that tho general
land office is, and Iuib boon for yoani,
the worst managed bureau in tno gov
ernment service, that lu system ot
transacting business, was ninny years
behind tho times nnd that It should
bo rc-orgonlzcd from top to bottom,
both lu tho offlco lu Washington nnd
In the field.
While tho commltteo did not charge
that Commissioner W. A. Richards
was directly responsible Tor tho, con
ditions of affairs In his bureau, which
represented nn nccumulutcd growth
Incident to bnd ndmlalstrntlon tor
years, It Is understood thnt It Intimat
ed that Commissioner Richards bail
been derelect In that ho had mado no
effort to correct tno mlsmnnngomont
ot affnlrs apparent to any ono who
bad a. knowledge ot tho affnlrs of tho
bureau.
MYSTERY AT CLAREMORE.
Farmer Went to Chicken House and
Completely Disappears
A blngulnr story cornea from Clue
mere, I. T. Baturtlny night a far
mer named Ulrdson loft bin house la
his shirt sleeves with n lighted lan
tern to Invotjtlgato a nolao ho hooril
In tho chicken house. That wna tho
lost thnt hna boen seen df him. Th
Inntern was found llghton near tho
henhouso Thcro was no ovldonoo of
a struggle. What has bocomB of Bird
bon Is a comploto mystery.
SENSATIONAL
STATEMENT
VAST 8UMS FOR FRI8CO RELIEF
HAVE BEEN STOLEN.
President Has One Hundred Govern
ment Agents Making Investiga
tions and Declares No Guilty
Man Shall Escape.
By AsEOclntod Proas.
Sau Frnncloco, Nov. 11 Thu
Chronlclo snys: "It appoarB that
many sums of money sont from dif
ferent stntes for tho rellof of suf
ferers In tho recent calamity nover
reached tho relief commlttoo. One
hundred government agents aro now
making an Investigation."
Roosevelt la tho moving spirit bo
hind tho inquiry nnd ho doc I area toot
not n guilty man shall escapo Justlco.
It is said tho aggregato of tho steal
ings will amount to a million dollars.
Standard Tendered Bribe.
By Associated Press.
Cleveland, O., Nov. 14. A special to
tho News from Flndlay, Ohio, today
says - "According to C. C. Myortt,
n member of tho Jury that convicted
tho Standard Oil company, of violating
tli nntltrust law, a brlbo of 500
was twlco offered him during tho trial
on condition thnt he hnng tho Jury
and cause disagreement.
Hear Inter-marrled Whites,
ily Associated Prosa.
Vlnlta, 1. T. Nov. 14. Tho senate
Indian commltteo today hoard the in-tor-married
whites of tho Cherokee
nation who naked tor certnln rights
regnrdlwf Chorokoe lands.