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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-04-24
Il now transpires that The Hon

Itnow transpires that the Hon.
Charles Curtis Is to chaperone a
lunketing party of senators and
Others through the territory st an
early day. Curtis could point out
some valuable mineral leases TO
che crowd from the car windows as
they journey through the Chero-
.kee country, if be only would.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-04-24

The advocates OF the treaty will
have a hard time persuading the
fullbloods TO stay at home and re-
frain from voting. II there Is any
one thing a fullbloOd Cherokee
can be depended on to do it is to
vote every opportunity.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-04-24
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GREAT TRAINS.

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Daily through train Of coaches, chair
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dining cars.
NO. Is; morning train, Kansas City TO
Nebraska, Denoer and Pacific Coast, via
scenic Colorado. Weekly California ex-
cursions personally conducted.
NO. u; latest night train, Ksnsss City
to Denver; night train for NeblAska, ST.
Paul, Omaha.
NO. AZ; noon train, Kansas City &c
Omaha, St. Paul; through Shoppers.
no. S.; famous Chicago Eli; dining
and buffet library cars, chair cars and
sleepers.
NO. IS; St. Louis fast night express.
NO. ~; fast morning train east.
Write for descriptive matter, rates and
information.
L. ]. BriekeI, L. W. Wakeley
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Howard Elliott,
General Manager.
St. Joseph, Mo.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-04-24
An Intelligent Answer.

Editor Chleftaln:-lf you Will De
40 kind as to spare me the space l
would like to have a word to say
in answer to Mr.. Farrar's opinion.
He seems to confne his argument
60 the all absorbent ''lease clause
and other things of minor import
lance, and claims the pending
tr eaty is much better because we
viii get a deed for the 1907 acres
we will get under the treaty, and
winds up with q dispairing call
upon the people to ratify the
treaty.
Now fellow citizens. it seems to
me that this great United States
government is trying to run the
scarf over the horse" and force US
70 take our lands in s~everalty be-
fore themselves or any one else
knows q thing about how much
Land there will be to allot or how
many there will be to share in the
lands and moneys OF the tribe.
Why not let US 60 a little slow on
this question and let the socalled
dawes commission" get the
status Of every man in the Chero-
kee nation fixed, and let this town
site surveying corps get through.
chen by taking the reservations
out for the different institutions
we could then be 10 some kind Of
shape 10 take an intelligent vote
On g treaty. Our lands viii then
be appraised. tie "Slade & Bend
err claim will then be settled and
we viii then have q very good
idea what will be due each and
every citizen.
As to the deed for our land we
already have that in the patent we
hold under date of December 81,
1855, and signed by Martin Van
Buren, and H. NJ. Garland, the
former being at that time the pres
ident of the United States, the lat
ter the recorder OF the general
land Office which Is better than
any deed we might be able to get
by a treaty with the government
mt the present time. Then l say
again what is the use for us 10
make q treaty with s government
who has never kept her treaties in
the past any better then the
United States keeps her treaties
with the Cherokees. On Deem
Der IS. 1859 did not this same gov
ernmenl, in order 10 complete ne
gotistions for the purchase Of the
strip, agree that they would pay
90 the Cherokees eli moneys
which should be found due the
Cherokees by the accountants then
90 be appointed under said sgree-
ment Of December 19. 1889 which
/ s nov known as the 'Slsde &
Bender claim. / would ask, did
the government do this7 No.
They nov want rs TO prove what
kind Of Cher0kess we are. while
che commission sent to make that
sreaiy did not question bat that
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-04-24

The cry that the big land hold
en- are for the traty has fallen fiat
as it is known that most of that
class are for the treaty.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-04-24


all persons who are obnoxious to
the Cherokee people, and who
should be decided by the Cherokee
council TO be non-citizens in this
country. | mean the intruders
who are in possession OF and hold
ing and using more than 10000
acres Of Cherokee land and deriv-
ing the rents therefrom each year.
l would ask Of all the fair minded
and thinking citizens Of our coun-
try, have they done as they agreed
to do in this matter? No. / say
fellow citizens, when the United
States government iul6lls her
treaties she has made with US in
the past then, and not before that
time, will be plenty of time to talk
about making a treaty.
If this great arm of Justice"
and so-called protector Of the
oppressed carrying the name of
the United States government
would be one-half as willing to re-
move these intruders from this
240, 900 acres of land they are now
occupying and, place said land
in possession Of some poor, needy
Cherokee Indian as they are try
ing to enforce section 16 of the So
called "Curtis bill'' against some
of the boniied citizens Of this
country who is holding and using
this land under the laws and with
the consent of the tribe, and whom
the real Indian himself is not OBJ
jecting to at all, it would look
then more like they meant to deal
out justice to all concerned. The
so-called land monopoly are not
the men they have been repre-
scented to be in the past; they are
all more or less willing and
anxious to have the country al
loted and give each man, woman
and child their share Of all lands
and money due them and are will
ing themselves to take their pro
rata share Of the common estate,
provided il is all done in a fair
and equitable manner, but they 7
not willing to start out by taking
800 with no assurance of ever
getting any more land or getting
the money rightfully due the peo-
pie paid to them in the settlement.
fl we're to rent your farm and
agree to give you full and peace
able possession of it on a certain
date and you would then have to
sue me and put me of by force at
great expense and trouble, then
the second year should come back
and want to rent the farm again,
would it be policy for you to rent
to me the second time? Just so in
this case, when the United States
government pays out the $780,
600, removes all the United States
citizens from our lands who hold
them and claim them as
their own, and ~depriving our
Cherokee boys Of the use of it, as
they agreed 10 do when they made
they strip agreement, then let Us
get the true status Of each and
every person in the country, find
out how much is due each one
and then let each and every one
take his little mite and go on bis
way rejoicing.
Then there is another thing
about this treaty. Are you going
to have your children who are
born since April, 1900, to grow up
in the midst of their brothers and
sisters, just 8 year OF SO older. and
who are just ss much entitled 10 8
share 10 this estate, and have
them say to you that you helped
so raiify a treaty that did not give
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-04-24

WAY rejoicing.
Then there is another thing
about this treaty. Are you going
to have your children who are
born since April, 1900, to grow up
10 the midst of their brothers and
sisters, just . year or 50 older, and
who are Just sc much entitled 10 8
share 10 this estate, and have
them say 10 you that you helped
so raiify a treaty that did not give
a poor helpless iniant their own
share Of what Is nghiiuliy due
them. These little ones are joint
heirs 10 this common estate ss the
old gray haired men ofthe country
are. Will you be guilty o. such
&C outrage a. this2
And Jet me say again % every
voter who is interested that you
give your earnest support 70 aid
in defesiing the treaty. Go % The
polls on the 29ih and do III iu
your power to make . solid poll
against il. Iours. A Cherokee,
C. T. HoIDEzNAS.
Welch. J. r.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-29
SOM: FOOL lSH PEOPLE

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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-11
WEEK-0F-PRAYER MEETINGS.
Doctors Pattillo and Carleton Lead
To-Day.

Yesterdays week Of prayer MONDAY meet
ing in the Carleton building was largely at
tended. The leader was the Reverend Doc
tor r. p. Johnston. pastor Of the Third Bap-
list Church. His theme was "The Mind OF
Christ" which, he said, was to characterize
every true disciple OF Christ.
The Reverend Doctor :. j. Niccolls, pas
tor OF the Second Presbyterian Church. said
there was a danger Of limiting the mind
OF Christ to our own notions OF Christian
work, and imagining that il must be re-
stricted to certain lines. He said the bust
ness man in his daily routine could Just as
truly have and exercise the mind Of Christ
as the minister in his work.
The leader for to-day is the Reverend
Doctor G. L. Pattillo, pastor OF Lafayette
Park NJ. z. Church. South.
The afternoon meeting at the Third Bap-
list Church was better attended than that
of Wednesday. The Reverend Doctor ]. IL.
Church. South. discussed the topic. Prayer
for Right Relations in Society and to the
Heather. With the Golden Rule Obeyed as
Between Man and Man. and All Social ami
Political Action Guided by Justice and Good
Will. the Christian Ideal" The doctor took
the position that il was Just this sort 0f
thing that was most needed in society. in
business and in the State and nation
This afternoon. the meeting at the church
will be led by the Reverend Doctor T. -.
Carleton, pastor of Lafayette Park Baptist.
Church.. and the general topic will ley
Prayer for All Missionaries and Mission
airy Organizations, That Being Wholly In
Spired by Christian Devotion and Wholly
Guided by Christian Wisdom, They May
Speedily and ~Triumphantly Fulfill the Sa-
viOr'S Last Command"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-11
A " BOODLERS.

In the & scramble of machine Re
publicans for nomination to the House
of Delegates there is an object lesson
which should not be lost by good citi-
zens who propose to make reasonably
sure Of keeping boodlers and grafters
out Of local office during the Worlds
Fair period.
1t is this prospect of possible loot aris-
ing from the necessity for Worlds Fair
legislation by the Municipal Assembly
which has caused the hot Republican
rivalry for seats in the House of Dele
gates. The outlook for booty will be
bright indeed for gangsters If they can
secure election to the House this spring.
1t is not strange, therefore, that they
are working like beavers to make sure
of nominations for seats in the House.
Upon the Democratic and Republican
parties alike devolves the duty Of nomi-
mating only clean and honest men to the
House of Delegates for service during
the Worlds Fair period. The party Or
g~anization, with its power to control
nominations, should not be surrendered
to the influence of the gangsters. The
necessity for Worlds Fair legislation
u not be made the occasion of q
hold-up by boodling Assemblymen. If
the W. parties are faithful to the public
welfares they will see that grafters are
kept off their respective tickets.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-11
DEFEAT THE GANGSTERs.

All the influence Of good citizenship
should now be exercised in Il determined
effort to defeat the bill before the LcgiS-
latur' providing for the election of mem
bers Of the st. Louis School Board from
districts instead OF at large.
Public, school funds are threatened
with lOOting by this measure. The wei
fare of the schools. the protection of the
school venue from the control Of ex-
travagant or corrupt political %gangsters.
the maintenance of the School Board as
Il body of educational direction rather
than as a political machine, are the
issues at stake.
The necessity for nj once awaking to
the danger contained in the Collins bill
arises from the fact that the schemers
who are working to compel a return to
the old evil system of district school
directors and political control of the
o count upon public indifference
as giving them their best chance to
trick the Legislature into passing the
Collins bill. The people of st. Louis
must not permit this great wrong TO the
schools of their city. They should see TO
it that the Collins bill is vigorously
fought in jefferson City. and that legis-
latOrs from all parts of the State are
fully posted as TO the bills evil features
and malign intent.
The handiwOrk of the same old crowd
that so ~mismanaGed the public schools
of st. Louis a few years 9 is plainly
perceptible in the new movement. The
~intrOducer of the bill now before the
House of Representatives. John Z. Col
Inns, was n member of the School Board
when the gang had control. His bill
stands for all that is evil in its ena
to the st. Louis public schools. 1t
should be so overwhelmingly defeated
that the gang shall never dare again to
propose such legislation against the
of education in Missouri's chief
city.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-11
NEW CITY HOSPITAL.

When the contractor begins the work
of wrecking the old City Hospital, pre-
paratory to grading the site for the cree
lion Of the new pavilion institution, the
occasion should be one of sincere rejoic-
ing on the part of all thoughtful citi-
Zens.
For nearly five years now the city has
been without an adequate hospital struc-
ture, the old rookery used for hospital
purposes being little more than a ram
shackle firetrap disgracefully deficient
in all that goes to make a modern hos
pital. Under a proper municipal ad-
ministratiOn a new and c~OmmodiOus
building would have been erected long
before this, but it so happened that the
destruction Of the old hospital occurred
just before the beginning of the most
costly and inefficient administration st.
Louis has ever known.
Nor should it be forgotten that, had
Mayor Ziegenhein and his gang been
allowed the free exercise of choice, there
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-11
SOME FACTS

Legislators would serve the State of
Missouri by looking into the future be-
fore passing 4 sweeping franchise-tax
law.
Among the other interesting circum-
stances they could take into their cal
culations the recent tendency of manu-
featuring and other enterprises In this
city to cross the river and locate in or
near East st. Louis.
At East st. Louis locations the burden
some bridge arbitrary is avoided; coal
is cheaper; switching facilities are more
convenient and, as a rule, ground for
sites is much cheaper. These advan-
tages have already taken across the river
into Illinois some of the most extensive
st. Louis enterprises. 1t is well known
that a number of others are contem-
plating the change. Evidently, a new
taxation, thoughtlessly applied to pro-
ductiye business as well as to quasi
public services, would accelerate this
movement.
st. Louis already pays more than twice
its natural share of taxation in support
of State government. Whatever re-
duces the number of taxed institutions
in st. Louis directly and Indirectly
reduces the States revenues, and either
throws new burdens on taxpayers in the
counties or curtails the incomes of State
institutions.
No provisions in the law could en-
brace for taxation purposes most of the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-11

would now be no prospect Of a new City
Hospital for years to come. Under the
first impulse of resentment caused 10y
the passage of the police law, the Mayor
favored the sacrificing of the hospital
fund to meet the salary-grab demands OF
his ringsters. The compelling force OF
public sentiment, promptly brought 10
bear against such a proposition, alone
prevented the carrying out of this venge-
full plan. The money with which the
new hospital is 10 be paid for would
now be in the pockets of Tincsters but
for this righteous pressure of public
sentiment.
Ii is To be hoped that work on the new
City Hospital will be vigorously pushed
until the structure has been completed.
The need for such Il structure is great
indeed. Only through the mercy Of
Providence has appalling disaster. due
TO a hospital occupation Of a most dan
gerouS building. been ayerted-disaster
of a nature that would have covered the
municipal good name of ~. Louis with
shame in the Judgment of the outside
world.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-11
SCIENCE. THE WIZARD.

Scientist Nikola Tesla's belief that the
inhabitants of the planet Mars are max
ing electric signals to us of the planet
Earth, a belief based upon certain at
mOspheric effects which impressed him
as being due TO a possible Marian influ-
ence exerted for communications sake,
is at least a fascinating Twentieth Cen
fury conjecture.
1t will not be wise, either, to boot too
incredulously at the Tesla theory as
arising purely from the imagination of
an overly sanguine electrical savant OF
course, it seems absurd to us just now
10 think that communication with Mars
may ever De attained. But it would have
seemed equally absurd to our GRANDPA
theirs had they been told that the day
was not far distant when a person at
one end of a wire in st. Louis and a
person at the other end of that wire in
New York City would onverSe with one
another by word of mouth, each recog-
nizing the others voice as if face to
face.
This seems to be the view of Tesla's
theory taken by Professor Fleming,
+. Il. S, of the London University Col
lege, even though the British scientist
smiles at the Tesla announcement. He
thinks that the people of Mars are be-
yOnd our reach. but he will not commit
himself TO an expression of absolute GER
tainty on this point. 1T is difficult to
say that anything is beyond the ultimate
reach of science" saws Professor EIam-
ing. And this is about the only safe po-
sition to take. The Twentieth Century
spirit is not a spirit to be daunted by
the millions Of niles between us and
Mars. 1t is likely to p them almost
any fine day-and there you are, just
as when the telegraph and the ocean
cable and the telephone and electric
lights and electricity as a motive power
accomplished the seemingly impossible.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-11
The Reverend j. VI. Stultz Of CLAW
ton Takes a Sick Pensioners
Place at Type Case.
WEDDING ONLY INTERRUPTION
Minister Left the Printing Office IA
Perform the Ceremony, Then
Returned to His Work
Editor Bautzer's Offer.

The Reverend J.. ". StuItz. pastor q, IN.
Clayton Methodist Church, quit admin,z,sr-
ing to the spiritual wants OF his flock va.
terday long enough to go into the ofbcs a,
the St Louis County ADVOCATE. a UAsLIv
paper published at Clayton, and taka ~.
place in It's composlng-room OF On. az ~.
parishioners. who is Ill.
Doctor Stultz set type with az nv
cliiy as any Of the compositors IN IN.
room. and did not leave his case un,p =.
was called out about 3 o'clock in the after
noon 10 ofticiate at a wedding. As soon Al.
the ceremony was performed he doffed M,
clerical robes. donned an apron and wen,
back 10 the case. making a fun day m.
wages OF which were applied to his sick
~parishione-.
Mr.. Bautzer. the editor OF the paper xaN
extremely well pleased with the work do,.t
by the ministerial composition. Determines
not TO be outdone. he is now out with a
proposition to reciprocate and inserted
notice in his paper that whenever Doctor
Stultz Is IN need Of n minister for the mil
pit he con count on him to fill the vacancy.
Editor Bautzer asserts that he is NOT an
amateur at filling pulpits either, and feels
confident that he could create a good i'm
preston on Doctor Stultz's parishioners(
Doctor Stultz, on the other hand. main
tains that he must not be classed with ths
amateurs when it comes to publishing
newspaper. Before his ordination to IN.
ministry. he says. he was connected with
a st Louis religious publication. Conse-
quently he felt perfectly at home when he
took his parishioneTs place at the case
yesterday.
Doctor Stultz would not have It under
stood That he Is establishing a precedent
by his action OF yesterday. Grouped among
his parishioners are all classes. They in
Glide lawyers. doctors, mechanics Of all
KINDS and other sundry occupations. He
believes in practical Christianity. but fears
he would have to draw the line If called
to go into court and defend a divorce
case. or to go to a bedside and diagnose
an illness or to do a job OF plastering. Doc
tor Stultz says he is willing TO lend a help
ing hand wherever possible, but his capac-
ity must not be overtaxed.