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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19

homes and friends and their home court
and into another and foreign Jurisdiction
.or trial, upon charges Of violation of the
laws OF the United States. and not tried
before jury of their peers il the courts Of
their own country, as is provided by the
constitution.
g. Because the enormous and unparalleled
expense incident to and unavoidable in the
trial of parties for offenses committed in
the Indian Territory, in said foreign courts,
resulting, III the main. from the necessity
of taking parties and witnesses such great
distances, in many instances of hundreds Of
miles, for trial, ana many times away from
their friends who would give bond for them,
and compelling them to lie in jail for months
to await the action OF the grand jury, and
the inconvenience to the thousands of wit
nesses, is alike an injustice to the govern
ment, witnesses anu parties, and your
memorialists show that they believe such
trials could be had IN the United States
court i'll the Indian Territory for from %
to 80 per cent of the amount now paid by
the government therefor, and that much
more speedy and exact justice can be done
by such court in the Indian Territory than
by such foreign tribunals.
1. Because the United States court In
the Indian Territory has all the necessary
facilities for administering justice and pun
iShing violatorS OF the law; that said court
is no longer an experiment, and that as in
teligent honest and efficient grand and
retit jurors are empaunelled in said court
rs in any court in he United States, and
that such jurors are here in sufficient mum
bers for all purposes
5. Because the taking of defendants and
thousands of witnesses into such foreign
jurisdiction where liquors are 10 be freely
had, tends to increase rather than retard
crime in the Indian Territory; that having
partaken of the forbidden fruit many of
them yield to the desire to convey portion
to their homes, and thus is the crime of in
PRODUCING liquors in the Indian country
multiplied. This is especially true as TO the
Indians who are required to be in attend
ance upon these foreign courts.
6. Because of the great confusion
and uncertainty resulting from contrary
and conflicting rulings and construc-
tions of the law by the United States courts
for the Eastern district of Texas, the
Western district Of Arkansas and the Indian
Territory, insOmuch as persons convicted of
crime by one OF said courts, have been re-
leased and set at liberty on writ of habeas
corpus to another of said courts, and specific
acts are held by one of said courts TO be
violations OF law. and the grand jury is told
to indict therefor; and by another of said
courts the same acts are held to be no viola
tion of law, and the grand jury is SO iR-
Structed
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
DON'T WANT BLACKS
Choctaw Council Passes a Law
to Remove Intruding Negroes.
A CITIZENSHIP ASSOCIATION.
Memorial to Congress Praying for Grim
inal jurisdiction for the United
States Courts in the In
dian Territory.
Oyerrun by Negroes.

Special to the Gazette.
PARIS, Ten, Nov. 15.-The Choctaw peo-
pie are being overrun by negroes from the
surrounding country, generally of Z hard
class, whose absence was u benefit to the
locality they quit. Their mixing with the
negroes raised among the Choctaws, former
ChOctaw slaves and their descendants, has
had very demoraliZing effect and they are
proving SO troublesome that the coJncll has
passed Il law directing the governor to cause
all such intruding negroes to be removed
forthwith, and further forblding any Off
GERS TO issue residence permits to any negro
except former Choctaw slaves or their de-
scendants, or to those employed as teachers
III the Choctaw ColOred public schools. A
tine of $50 is prescribed against any officer
violating this provision, aud against any
citizen employing any illegally resident
negro.
BY the fourth section of the act all com
panies or corporations doing business in the
Nation under license from the Choctaw
government land none others can do bust
ness there) are forbidden employing or
bringing in any such negroes, and those who
have such negroes now in employ are re-
quired to remove them from the Nation,
and a failure to comply with this law shall
work a forfeiture OF their licenses and
franchises.
This last provision strikes directly at the
Choctaw coal and railway company, which
is operating coal mines under Choctaw
leases and which replaced striking white
and Indian miners about two months ago
with negro miners imported from Alabama.
These negro miners are already leaving.
quite number passing through few days
ago going to some coal mine west of Fort
Worth.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
Stubborn Cherokees.

Speclal 70 Ihe SiEetLC
TABLEHUAH, l. T., Nov. 15.-The Chero-
kee commission sent here to negotiate with
the Cherokees for the Strip have now been
here week without having accomplished
anything, and the indications are that an
other week or perhaps several OF them Will
pass before a hearing can be had by them
from the stubborn CheroEees. The secret
of the matter is these civilized Indians are
not over anxious TO sell any more Of their
land to Uncle Sam
However, the Cherokee commissions
presence has been slightly noticed and Il
bill passed by the Cherokee legislature
which is now in session. providing for the
appointment of five commissioners On the
part of the CherOhees to enter upon nego
tiations with the governments representa-
tiyes. 1t is extremely doubtful. whe her
terms can be agreed upon though, unless
the United States will agree to grant the
CherokeeS certain desirable points that
they are now figuring upon. One of these
is the removal Of all intruders whose rights
to citizenship have been tried in the Chero-
kee courts and decided against, OF which
class there are some fl or SIX thousand.
Another point the Cherokees wish to
gain in the trade, provided trade IS made,
is the privilege of entering the United
States courts in cases coming up as TO title
to lands, etc. Besides. they want to abro-
gate certain articles of the treaty of 1860
that have proved TO be quite Objectionable
to them; and then, too, they want big
price for the Strip. more than the Cherokee
commission are authorized to give. This
last within itself will in all probility defeat
the object of the Cherokee commissions
visit to Tahlequah, and it is retty safe to
say that the governments representatives
will return to Washington as unsuccessful
as they did on two previous occasions.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19

Senator Sherman has to some extent at
least placed himself in the field for the
nomination at the next Republican national
convention. He declared in an interview
which was widely published that the Re-
publican triumph in Ohio was due solely to
the action of the Republican party upon the
financial question and that this question
would be the dominating one in the next
campaign. OF course. in making this state
ment Senator Sherman knew that with the
financial question as the dominating ques-
tios he would naturally come to the front
as the candidate. But it seems that Sec
rotary Foster and Maj. Mckinley do not
agree with the senator. Foster says 500
votes were not influenced either way by
the financial question, and Mckinley laughs
at the Idea that anything but the tariff had
to do with his success.
Speaking Of Mckinley, this gentleman
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19

in the greatest temple that ever stood, was
Frustrated at Ephesus, it was prophesy
of the overthrow of all the idolatries that
have cursed the earth, and anything we
love more than God is an idol, and there
is as much idolatary in the Nineteenth cen
turv as in the first. and in America as in
Asia.
As our train pulled out from the station
at Ephesus, the cars surro 4nded by the
worst looking group If wilkins ever gazed
on. al If therI seeming in d wraugle with
ca h oihYr AMI Trying i' ge' ir'o wlanE.e
with Us am, We moved along h columns
OF ancient aruedQ,-,s. earh c"i.tl.. crowned
with stUrks having built their nests there,
AMI we rolled Oh towards Smyrna, and
that night in a Sailors Bethel. We spoke Of
the Christ whom the world must know or
perish, we felt that between cradle aud
grave there could not be anything much
more enthralling for body. mind and soul
than our visit to Ephesus.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
The Louisiana State Lottery
Before the Supreme Court.
THREE LAWYERS At So,
The Action of the Comptroller Of the Currency
Likely TO be investigated.
Election of Mills to the Speskership VIII
Throw the Bulk OF the COMMITTEES
Chairmanships to the North.
How Texas VIII Fare.
Will Win if Money Can Do 1t.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-Three famous
lawyers, two of them Southern men, are
now in Washington to defend the interests
of the Louisiana state lottery before the
supreme court. The question arises on the
constltuionallty OF the law fOrbidding the
circulation in the mails Of newspapers con-
tanning advertisements OF the lottery. The
leading counsel for the company Is Hon.
Thomas j. Semmes of New Orleans, eX-
attorney general, senator If the COnfed-
eracy aud eN-preSident of the national bar
association. He is venerable-looking
man, of pleasant manners. and for years
has been regarded as the leader of the Lou
iSiana bar. Next to him comes James c.
Carter, the noted New York lawyer. who
is considered one of the ablest juris:s in he
country. and especially strong on matters
involving constitutional Interpretation.
The third of the lottery advocates is Hannis
Taylor Of Mobile He is quite i young
man, but is known for deep research and a
book from his pen on the Origin and
Growth of the English Constitution" won
for him the unstinted praise of the ablcst
men III the profession, not only in this
country, but in Earope.s7s---,. s's7sty
In tackling such an array of legal talent,
Attorney-General Miller and Mr.. Maury,
his assistant, are apt to be overmatched,
but how the court viii decide is OF course
matter of mere conjecture. There can be
no DOUBT that barring the company $ adVer-
tisements from the papers dealt
it severe blow. Prior 70 that
restriction, it was estimated that $780,
900 wenEout offEs ashington every month to
pay for tickets. Nearly every body patron
lied the ihstitution,Nan in every govern
ment depais4ent scores of clerks bought
the sips regularly that We're to bring them
fortune. Probably saot one-fenth of the
money that used 10 find its way to Newpr-
leans from the capital now swells the col
fers of the greatest money-maliing scheme !
of modern times. OF course tickets are
still to be had. and there are lottery fiends
that will invest TO the end of their lives, but
the bulk of their outside trade is gone.
Hence the retention OF such able counsel,
not one of whom is supposed to receive
fee under S25, 600 with that much additional
if the company is successful.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
Committee Chairmanships.

AS the time for the assembling of the ma
tional Legislators draws nigh, the opinion
becomes more pronounced that Mr. Mills
viii be any easy winner of the SpeakerShip.
He has gained steadily in the past three
weeks, while Crisp stock has gone down
I had talk with Col. rIills the other day
and he expressed his confidence that he
would be elected in Sanguine fashion He
is making a dignifed canvass and holds
aloof from all bargains and dickers that
might lay him under obligations.
There is one thing, however, that is in
volved in his SucceSS-it means that Texas
can hardly hope for as many chairmanships
Of committees as might otherwise go that
way. If precedent were followed, three or
four Texas congressman would go to the
head of committees. but the election of any
Southerner will tend to give Northern men
the biggest share of chairmanships. In
any event, Culberson is very apt to 20 back
to his former place as chairman of the ju-
dietary committee. Mr.. Sayers deserves to
be chairman of the important committee on
appropriations but he is just one lower on
the list than Gen. Forney of Alabama,
though the energy and ability of the Texas
man is so far superior that it entities him
to precedence.
Mr.. Grain is first on the Democratic list
of the Pacific railroads committee and
could therefore lay legitimate claim to the
craftsmanship thereof. Mr.. Kilgore is the
senior on the committee that has charge of
enrolled bills and should go to the top under
a Democratic organization of the house Mr..
Lanham was chairman of the very impor-
tant claims committee in the Eiftieth con
gress, but was transferred in the last house
to the committee on military affairs which
ought not to operate, however, to his pre- ill-
dice.
Only one Democrat is higher by way of
seniority than Judge Abbott, on the public
buildings committee-Baukhead of Ala
bama. In point of honesty, ability, whole
sou4ed cleverness and re q! in behalf of his
constituents, neither ankhead nor any
other representative ranks the popular and
level-headed member of the Sixth district
of Texas
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
Thanksgiving Proclamation

WASHINGTON, Nov 15-The fun text Of
the presidents Thanksgiving proclamation
is as follows:
BY the president of the United States of
America: A proclamation. II is a very
GLAD incident of the marvellous prosperity
which has crowned the wear now drawing
TO close that its hopeful ana reassUring
touch has been felt by all our people. It
has been as wide as our country.
and so special that every home has
felt its comforting influence. 1t is
too great 20 be the work of mans power
and too particular to be the device Of his
mind To God. the oenetceut and all-wiSe,
who makes the laborS of men TO be fruitful.
redeemS their losses by his grac,. and the
measure of whose governing is as much be
youd the thoughts Of man as IL is beyond
his deserts, the praise and gratitude Of the
people OF this favored nation are Justly due.
Now, therefore. l, Benjamin Harrison
president of the United States tmerica
do hereby appoint Thursday, tn - b day
of November present. to be q DAY Of Joyful
thanksgiving to God for the bountieS OF his
providence, for the peace in which we are
permitted to enjoy them. and for the pres
ervatien of ihOse institutions of civil aud
religious liberty which he gave our fathers
the wisdom to devise and establish aud
US the courage to preserve Among the ap-
propriate obServanceS Of the day are rest
from toll, worship in the public congrega-
ton, the renewal of family ties about our
American tresides, and thoughtful help
fulneSS toward those who suffer lack of
the body or OF the spirit. 81
In.testimony whereefF Nhavc hereunto
set my hand andsS estsed the seal of the
United States to bedffiXed.f I
Done at the city of Washington, this 18th
day of November. in she year of our LordN
one thousand eight hundred and ninetv-one,
'aGd-4of Ihe Independence of the United
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19

1t is believed that when congress meets a
resolution will be introduced and passed to
investigate the comptroller of the currency
as to his action, or rather his nou-action or
bad action, in regard TO the keystone and
Maverick banks. There come whispers out
of the compCroller's Office that such action
has occurred in many other banks; in other
words, that the comptroller's Office does not
control so far as the national banks are con-
cerned. 1t is very evident that this is true
in the case of the Keystone bank and the
Maverick bank, and it will not be at all out
of the way for the congress of the United
States to examine into the matter
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
HOME RULE MEMORIAL
To the Honorable Senators and Represent
tives of the United States, in Congress a
sembled:

To the Honorable Senators and Representa-
tlves of the United States, in Congress AS
sembled:
We, the undersigned citizens of the
Chickasaw, ChOctaw, Creek, Cherokee and
Seminole Nations of Indians, and citizens
of the United States residing In said Ma
lions, respectfully ask that exclusive juris-
diction of all crimes and offenses against
the laws of the United States committed
within the territory of said Nations be con-
ferred upon the United States court in the
Indian Territory, for the following reasons,
to-wit:
/. Because members and citizens of said
Indian tribes are now compelled to leave
their homes and places of nativity and go
into a foreign court, in foreign jurisdic-
ton. before a strange and foreign jury,
among people who are unacquainted with
their surroundings and circums tances. and
who have no sympathy for or in common
with them, and be tried upon charges for
ofenses committed at home, among such
people and before such juries, far from
their friends and their homes.
2. Because, contrary TO the genius,
custom, usage and policy of the United
States government and vital principle of
the Declaration of \ Independence, viz:
THAT citizen of the United States shall
be tried at home by jury of his peer s."
citizens of the United States residing in
the Indian Territory ara taken from their.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19

Governor Mayes of the Cherokees states
as fact that the intruder element have
organized what they style a citizenship
association" with an initiation fee of So
They are regularly organized, with full
outfit of officers and regularly maintained
and paid lobby at Washington, and attOr-
neys to look after their interests in the in
terror department. these intruders are ap-
propriating, so says Governor Mayes, the
choicest sections of the Cherokee country,
cutting and selling timber, cutting and
shipping, paying no taxes or royalties, and
defying the Cherokee authorities.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19

senator Voorhees, who is WI. recognized
i- one of The leaders NJ TIA Democracy,
when questioned Is 10 David Hill said
All have to say IS that the people VINO
imagine that David B. Hill VIII b. lost
sight OF in the senate are going to be terri
bly, mistaken. / am not given tC making
exaggerated statements. ana | have had
sufficient experience, think, 10 Judge men
with some degree of accuracy. Governor
Hill is q very big man. He has the ability to
take his place in the front rank Of the senate
the first day he takes his seat as member
of that body. IN my judgment he IS the
most accomplished statesman this country
has produced in forty years
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
BATTLE OF BIRDS CREEK.
The Citizens of Temple Intend to Erect a
Monument to the Memory of Those
Who Fell on that Occasion.
Special TO the Gazette.


TEMPLE, BELL COUNTY, TEX, Nov. Is
One of the bloodiest battles fought between
the white settlers and the Comanche In
dams was fought III the early days at Bird S
creek, one mile west of this city The
whites, consisting of thirty-slX white men
and one friendly Indian, who was the guide,
under the command of capt Bird. encoun-
tered several hundred hostile Comanches at
this battle ground early IN the afternoon,
and in the battle which lasted till after
nightfall, all the whites, save five and iu-
GLIDING Capt. Bird, were slain, and under
cover of night the five surviving whites and
the Indian guide escaped, and after some
days reached Austin.
DR.. Ferris. one of the most Intelligent and
clever old gentlemen, VINO was IN the battle
of Birds creek, recently visited the battle
ground and pointed out many points of in
tcrest, and related some thrilling eXpe-
riences of this battle. He spoke of the sur
vivOrS, and said the Indian guide, whose
name was Tom, became very much amused
at fight between negro and gearing
which the negro was trying to brand some
years after the battle of Birds creek, and
undertook to laugh. something he had never
been known to undertake before, and died
of the effort.
The citizens of Temple intend to soon
erect a monument on the battle-ground to
the memory of those who were slain there,
at the unwilling OF which DR.. Ferris will be
invited to take an active part.
Not only do the twelve churches whose
spires point heavenward from Temple indi-
cate the pety of our city and the regard
our people have for the Christian Sabbath,
bat the closed and Theoretically scaled
doors of our business houses on Sunday
show how obedient are they all TO the IN
day law of(Texas. Many man haSgone
dry to-day, and for good many Sundays
past, >6ecause.erq door of any business
house OF saloon |vas open 80
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19

has been in New York for several days.
resting himself after the labors of his cam
paign and he is the political lion of the day.
Major Mckinley will not commit himself at
all lpon who are to be the Republican can
didJieS next year. out there is a self
conscr Gus look about The eujlemau W hich
indicates that he might be able o name
the Man who couio wiG and that Us uame
would ne William Mckinley NJ Onto
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
Want to Govern Themselves.
Special to the Gazette

=
ARDMoRE, l. T, Nov. 15-The following
memorial to the next congress, praying for
complete criminal jurisdiction for the
United States courts in the Indian Terri
tory has been drafted by part of the legal
fraternity IN this city and others, ard is
now being circulated at every postoffice in
the five civilized tribes for signers between
now and the converting of congress- The
memorial conveys no menace to the Indians
or their governments, and as the United
States is already established in their midst.
the enlargement of its powers Is matter
of interest to the Indians as well as the
whites
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
The Coinage.

1.-THE coinage executed at the minis was
the largest in the history of the mint in this
country, aggregating 1851 ST. pieces,
valued as follows:
silver dollars. -.-...-......... o,232,SO2 w
Subsidiary silver. ............ 2.O39,21o 35
Minor COINS. -........... ..... l, 1886 50
1OCdA -......... 'Eoo,oIi IoJ o0
The seigniorage on the coinage of silver
dollars was 81, 22l .3-33. II, and on subsidiary
silver coinage, sS':!, +a34 As, total of S6,3l3-
161 80. The total coinage of silver dollars
under the act of 1878 from March /, 1873. to
the close of such coinage has been 1878, 1885,
79S. The coinage of silver dollars under
tn act of July ii. 1890, to November l, 1891,
has been S3l, 30S.515. total coinage of silver
dollars since 1878 of 4O9. 41j 36S. The net
seigniorage on the coinage of silver during
the thirteen years ending June 80, 1891, has
aggregated S71,952, 800. %.
THE amount OF silver purchased under
the act of 1873 from July l, 1890, to August
Is, 1890, aggregated BIOS, 1891 standard
ounces, costing s., 049, 426. Al, an average
cost of S1.00 per fine ounce. The total
amount of silver bullion purchased under
the act of February IS. 1878, from the COM
mencement, March /, 1873. to the end OF
August 12, 1890, was 323, 49,. SO 10 standard
ounces, costing SS0S, 1879, 260. Il, an average
cost of S1.O5S per fine ounce"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19

BENJAMIN HARRISON.
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-08
COUNTRY REAL ESTATE.

COUNTRY REAL ESTATE
d ACRES NEAR SAN FRANCISCO FOR
- 9looo; terms, 5000 cash. balance years at q
per cent; good Tor apples, pears prunes and small
-a.so, Nokl W, 235 kearny. feS If
IhACI OF ACRES AT EMANUEL STATION
opposite the Home of Peace Cemeterv. well
ater aof gardener or florist dairying; plenty Of
Darn, which can hold SO tons Of hay and M borsas
cbiek eISo large enough for 80
6rnss hi apply on premises to H. COST, or ad-
GOOD BARGAIN; SPLENDID IYyEsTsT tI1T.
~ o40 acres good farming land near Bakersaeld !:
S state patent; VIII be sold at sacrifce Ad,
uress ). Z. RuDDOCK, 644 Market st. fe7 OTIS