Free press., 1901-12-07

near Spiro, 1. T., and shipped to Fort
Smith.
Santa Fe surveyors have reached.
Owasso, to lay ont the line from Tulsa
to Red Fork.
Tulsa has another gas gusher with
strong flow. 1t is to be used for burn
ing vitrified brick.
The attorneys of Ada and Rolf, I. T.,
are asking for the removal of o. S.
Commissioner Dennee.
Colonel Dority, of Ada. I. T., has
been appointed to a position in the
Norfolk navy yards
Both houses of the Cherokee 1egisla-
ture passed the bill providing for ap-
pointment of revenue collectors.
u. T. Burton, brother of Senator
Burton, succeeds the latter as legal
representative of the Chickasaw nation.
The fullbIood Cherokees held meet
ing at Tahlequah and notified the
Dawes commission they would not en-
roll.
The Cherokee relief bill has been
passed and signed and seat to the presi-
dent for approval This is expected to
furnish per capita payment of about
So
Steve and Lige Grason, brothers,
quarrelled, and Steve shot Lige and
killed him. The brothers are Creek
Indians and the tragedy occurred at
Okmulgee.
One hundred Choctaws camped west
of Wilburton to select delegates and
raise funds to send them to Washington
to protest against changes in territorial
conditions.
Two more large coal companies have
been organized to operate at Tulsa.
Tests which have been made show veins
of coal of fine quality and of to feet
in thickness.
Mrs. Olive Martin, prominent in the
Grand Rebekah assembly of Indian
Territory, while temporarily insane,
killed herself with a revolver. This
occurred at Vinita.
1t is proposed to make of the Chloe
co Indian school an agricultural col
lege, and an appropriation of 100000
will be asked to enlarge the institution
to the capacity of l 900 students.
Judge Sanborn, in the federal court
at South McAlester, decided that after
the Indians are voters they will still be
wards of the government, and that it
will still be crime to sell them whisky.
Governor Ferguson was given a royal
farewell when he started for Washing
ton on the 2nd. The Watonga band
and glee club, with 200 citizens, went
with him as far as Geary, where a rel
ception was given him with great en-
| thusiasm.
Claims are being prepared by the
| Delawares for division of the Munsee
| Indians funds among the Delawares
who are of Munsee descent. The claim
is based upon the agreement made when
the Munsees were adopted into the
| Delaware tribe.
Attorney General Horace Speed went
to Washington to confer with the de-
partment of justice concerning the
negro question in the new counties.
Mr.. Speed received letters from negroes
who had been threatened in the new
country by people telling them that
they must leave the new country and
their claims on account of their color.
The reply of the United States attorney
was right to the point, saying that he
would prosecute every case where there
was evidence. But few negroes have
been compelled to leave their claims;
the report of 100 such cases is not true.
A line of action will be determined
upon by the department
The Observation-Disclosures conference
completed an agreement on essential
features of new treaty, which will be
gone over by the Dawes commission, ,
and if accepted the document will be
sent to Washington for ratification.
Senator Morgan has introduced a
bill in the senate appropriating 81, 500
of Cherokee funds for the erection of a
monument to SequOyah, who invented
the Cherokee alphabet. If the bill
passes the balance will be raised by
subscription and the shaft will be erect
ed in the capital square in Tahlequah.
Oklahoma won the national banner
| at the recent w. c. I. U. convention
for making the greatest addition to her
membership the past year.
The Creeks are extremely impatient
to receive their deeds from Washing
ton; except the Crazy Snake band who
are all opposed to the deciding of allot-
ments.
Solomon Hotema, the educated Choc-
taw, who killed two women whom he
believed had bewitched his family, has
been convicted of murder and sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
The latest from the head center is
that the president will offer the gov
ernorship of Oklahoma to Judge Frank
Dale; following the precedent of the
appointment of the democrat of Ten
nessee to the federal bench.
A few days before the failure of a
clothing merchant of Blackwell, boxes