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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
Latest Indian T erritory News.
ISSUES LAST CALL
Dawes Commission Urges Cherokee T.
Come la aud bs Enrolled

Dawes Commission Urges Cherokee to
Come la aud be Enrolled
NfNrTA; The Commission of the Five
Civilized Tribes issued the following
final notice to the Cherokees:
Final notice is hereby given that proof
of birth OF children born up to and in
Guiding Sept. /, 1902, must be made aud
filed with the Commission to the Five
Civilized Tribes at Muskogee, l. T., on
or before Oct. 81, 1902, and that unless
proof of birth Of any child is received
as above stated, said Commission will
be without authority to place the name
of such child upon the final rolls of the
Cherokee Nation.
The act of Congress approved July /
1902, and ratified by the citizens Of the
Cherokee Nation Aug. ~, 1902, pro.
vIdes: g.
Section %. The roll of citizens of
the Cherokee Nation shall be made as
sept. /, 1902, and the names of all per
sons then living and entitled to enroll
ment on that date shall be placed ON
said roll by the Commission to the Five
Civilized Tribes
Sec. 26. The names of all persons
living on the LIST day of September, 1902,
entitled to be enrolled IA provided in
Sec. 20 hereof, shall be placed upon the
roll made by said Commission, and no
child born thereafter to citizen, and
no white person who has intermarried
with Cherokee citizen since the 10Th
day of December, 1885, shall be enti
tied to enrolment or to participate in
the distribution of the tribal property
of the Cherokee Nation.
"Sec 30. During the months of Sep.
tember and October, during the year
| 1902 the Commission to the Five Civil
lied Tribes may receive applications
for enrolment of such infant children
as may have been born to recognized
and enrolled citizens of the Cherokee
Nation'o on or before the lst day of Sep
tember, 1902, but the application OF no
person whomsoever shall be received
after the 3lst day of October, 1902
"Sec. 81. No person whose name does
not appear upon the roll SO prepared as
herein provided shall be entitled to in
any manner participate in the distribu-
ton of the common property of the
Cherokee tribe, and those whose names
appear thereon shall participate in the
manner set forth in the act. "
TAMs BIXBY,
Acting Chairman,
T. b. NEEDLES,
9. r. BRECKINRIDGE,
Commissioners.
Muskosee, I. T., Oct IA, 1902.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
COURTS QUICK ACTION


-sxRs ConVict rrisd, Convicted and
Hanged in Two Hours
NACoGDoCHEs, TEX. Jim Buchanan
rolo ed, the murder Of the Hicks family.
vas trie here, plea of guilty WINS ac-
epted by the julg', and the negro was
legally hanged within two hours after
sentence had been passed Buchanan
was brought here un Ter the protection
of five companies of MALTA Upon n !
rival here the negro was Immediately
turned over to Sheriff Spradley, who
told the people that he would be given
4 speedy trial. The town began to fill
rapidly, and the excitement was intense
The telegraph wires were cut, the rail
road tracks Were torn up for short
distance, and it was announced that an
attempt would be made to get possession
of Buchanan District court was at
once convened, jury was impaneled
without delay, and the negro's plea OF
guilty was accepted by the court. The
Judge ordered that the death sehtence
be executel November IL, but many
people announced that they would have
no delay. Buchanan then waived the
thirty days allowed him by law, and
was hanged by Sheriff Spradley in the
Jail yard in the presence of n large
crowd
Two weeks ago the dead bodies of
Farmer Hicks, his wife and daughter
were found in the Hicks home and
Sheriff Spradley began search for the
murderer. A week later Jim Buckan-
an was arrested and confessed to the
murder. The news of the negro's
confession spread rapidly, and mob
If several hundred people marched efter
the sheriff and his deputies with the in.
tention of securing possession of the
negro and burning him at the stake
sheriff Spradley and his deputies re-
fused to give over the prisoner and
later they were joined by Sheriff Bow
ars, of San Augustine county. The
TWO officers, through ruse, finally sue
ceeded i'll spirting the negro away to
the parish Jail at Shreveport. Buchan~
an was next taken to the Jail at Hen
ierson and a company of MALTA was
ordered out to protect the negro frou
violence. A mob formed and it was
feared collision with the troops would
result in serious bloodshed. Two more
| companies of militia were despatched
10 Henderson and when the negro came
INTO Narogdoches he was guarded by
! ive companies of militia.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
AFFAIRS pIFFERENT NOW

Indians Becoming Independent Land
owners-TaHk Begnn'Fiftv Years Ago
WASHINGTON: 1t will be strange
experience for the congress of the
United States to meet without having
some phase of the Indian question
demanding consideration, yet that is a
prospect of the near future. The rati-
iication by the Creeks, Cherokees and
Chickasaws Choctaws of the treaties
recentlv- and adopted by con
greSs has made the way clear for a
rapid settlement of the affairs Of the
indians, by which the individual mem
bers of the tribe will receive their nllot-
ments and become citizens, dependent
upon their own eXertions, fer the sup.
port and relieved of the Euafdianship of
the nation. This is the plan to which
officials Of the interior department and
the Indian bureau have been working
for years, and Mr.. Hitchcock, secretary
of the interior, will probably see its
consummation. The secretary has de-
voted much of his personal time and
attention to the question for several
years, and his efforts is largely due
TO the credit for the unusual progress
that he has made toward the final solu-
ton Of the problems that have been
vexing congress, in connection with
Indian affairs, for more than hundred
years.
1t is expected that within a few
mouths at least two thirds Of the 240,-
600 Indians still remaing in the United
States will be independent land owners,
each holding title to IL plot of good
grazing and agricultural land. Uncle
Sam Is acting in the capacity of real
estate broker in this distributions, and
is making the special allotments, but
without exacting the usual commission.
The idea of having the tribes aban-
don their holdings of land and divide
it among their respective members was
first taken up more than fifty years ago,
but it has only been within compare
lively recent years that II has been car
ried out to any extent. 1t has always
| been recognized that the custom of the
| tribal government and ownership was
one of the chief drawbacks to the civil
| lization of the North American Indian.
III mas, consequently, Deen tne ann OF
the federal government to break it up
and fix the status of the Indian on near
| ly the same basis of his white brother
as possible. Accordingly, treaties were
negotiated between certain tribes and
the government providing for the allot-
ment of lands among the members of
the respective tribes and the sale of
the balance to the United States. These
treatise We're sent by the people to the
Senate for ratification, just as the treaty
of peace with Spain was.
For long time there was strong
prejudice on the part of the Indians
against surrendering the tribal owner
ship to the possessions, and, in fact,
this still continues i'll many quarters.
But outside of the lands owned by the
five civilized tribes the government has
divided into severalty more than &, 800,
600 acres. Sixty thousand claims have
been adjusted, giving to each individual
an average of 100 acres.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
THE ALPHABET OF SUCCESS.

Attend carefully to details.
BE prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battle bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious
Hold integrity sacred.
Iniure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous
Keep your mind free from evil
thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the veracity of friend.
Respect the counsel of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle, not in
toxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for Improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold Of
wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Extend to every one a kindly greet,
ing.
Zealously labor for the right, and suo-
cess is certain.-Ladies' Home
journal.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
WIT AND WISDOM.

Money II the gangplank OF pleasure.
Failure is often the scapegost OF
laziness.
All things come to those who wait
and hustle &
A womans eyes are the index OF
Loves lexicon.
A grand opera costume sometimes
adorns ragtime woman.
The way to manage a man is to let
him think that he is managing you.
honor the man who raises him
self and does not wait to be brought
up.
Success is the buffet at which your
friends clink glasses and wlsh you
luck.
1t is the fools of life who furnish
its pleasures. the saints its weari-
ness
The cloak of friendship is not
always protection against the cold
shoulder ~
Time and tide wait for no man, but
woman can manage to make almost
anything wait
A man thinks he understands wo-
men before marriage; afterward he
knows he doesn't
Experience is no respecter OF per.
sons. 1t jostles the beggar and gives
the millionaire good swift tap.
When Love and Confidence are
welded Jealousy will never be named
as correspondent in the divorce suit.
A woman may wear a hat tAst is
enough to make horse shy and yet
think that every other woman envies
her.
A man thinks he understands
woman. but tho woman knows that
she doesn't even understand herself
or know why she does many things,
Kate Thyson Mari.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
RANDLET'S KICK

The Indian Agent Says boards Are Al
lies of Grating Attorneys
WAsHGNGToN: Lieutenant Colonel II.
Randlet, u. :. A., in charge of the XII
IVA Indian reservation in Oklahoma, in
ais annual report to the commissioner
If Indian affairs vigorously assails the
Indian rights association and the gov
ernment board of Indian commissioners
The attack is brought ont by statements
made at the last Lake Monk onk. n. Y,
conference which the agent alleges are
Misrepresentation.
ut is apparent" says the report,
'that the time has come when the
righteous should, in praying for the in
terests of this agency, plead God, save
hem from their friends, the board of
Indian commissioners and the Indian
Rights association, the latter having de.
7eioped aS allies of grating attorneys
who seem bent on robbing the Indians
If the magnanimous provisions made
Tor them by the act of congress of June
J, 1900. This has encouraged the con-
,tant demand of legislators and con
,ress that the possessions of the Indians
)f tins agency be taken from them and
las engendered the want of confidence
md dIstrust which is disturbing the
minds of the Indians, who have raised
he question, What calamity have we
o expect.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23

SOUTH MCALEsTER: BY the most de-
cisive vote ever given in the territory
South McAlester decided to bond her
self for $l50,000 for construction of
waterworks and sewers. The total vote
was SOB, and there were but seven
votes in opposition to the bonds. The
ward in which the business houses are
chiefly located gave a unanimous vote
of 2l5. The election came after a
vigorous campaign in which the friends
of franchise won the result. Fred Nc.
Intyre announced that $4,000 had been
subscribed to build a modern hotel.
Forty buildings have been hung nj
pending the result. Every store was
closed for three hours in the middle of
the day that merchants and clerks
might work for the bonds.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
Amerioans Amaze England

New YORK; English Moiaists are
staggered by the tremendous simplicity
of the negotiations for bringing the
coal strike TO close, cables the London
correspondent of the Tribune Neither
sovereign nor Prime Minister here could
have intevened in an industrial crises,
as the President has done; nor is there
any English finnncier capable of play
ing Mr.. Morgan 'spart No laber leader
has arson in England with Mr.. Mitch
ells influence over the workers. The
strike. il settled by arbitration, will be
fresh p' oof, according to English oh
servers. that Americans have the power
tf keeping their heads while walking on
the verge of a precipice.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
cHIcKAsAW LAND VALUATION
Dawes Commission and Tribal Represen
tative to Complete Work


tative to Complete Work
VINITA: The representatives of the
Choctaw nation, comprising Gov John
son, Gov. Moseley aud Attorney Nc
Murray, have held several conferences
with the Dawes Commission within the
last few days relative 20 the grading of
the land of the Choctaw nation. The
land in the nation has nll been classed,
but the price that will be set upon the
different grades has not been fixed. Ac-
cording to the supplementary treaty,
the price will be fixed by the Dawes
Commission, together with represen-
tative of the Indian government. There
will be commission to do this work,
and it will be composed of the members
of the Dawes commission and such rep
resentativcs as the Indian government
may select. This will he necessary be-
fore there can be an allotment of lands
and before the land Office can be estab
lished
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
THE CREEK SITUATION
Indian Lands win Not he Sold Under
Five Years

inuian LANDS VIII not lie sold Under
Five Years
Il do not believe that any of the Creek lands
will be sod under five years, said Captain W.
VI. Pyes of Mounds, /. Il. "The interior de
nartment must approve all sales of Indian
lands, and the department is opposed to the
ale Of the Indian lands except where it il
shown that the Indian would be benefited
thereby. The law provides that the Creek
Indian may sell l20 acres of their l6Oacre allot
ments, but che secretary nust approve the
sale. The belief is becoming general that the
Indians will not be permitted TO sell their lands
lust to get money. In some cases the advan.
tage of "A sale would be marked while in others
he money no doubt would be squandered.
.now an Indian named HariO, who has excel
lent ideas ON the disposition of his land. He
uas eight children. He wants to sell the 24C
lcres belonging 10 himself and wife and use
he money for the improvement of the farms
If the children He figures that by the tim,
he youngest son is of age that he will have
un his course anyway.
Many of the progressive Indians won't sell
any Of their land. They are farming II and
making Just a. good use of IL as the whites
% sell. They will all move to towns a. soon as
hey sell their allotments. They now live in
colonies and refuse to move onto their allot-
aents. They make fair laborers and are not
he lawless people generally supposed.
The Creek country Is susceptible Of great
ieveloment and when land titles are settled
I will soon become an exceptionally rich
'ountry"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23

DUNCAN; The civil docket has been
finished at Ryan with only three jury
trials in two of which verdicts were
rendered The criminal docket was
taken up but, court adorned .as John
Bonner, the, ,only criminal, under in
dictment in fifteen cases escaped from
Office Deputy Brock at the court house
et Ryan. Bonner ran down Main street
taking advantage of the crowded con.
dition of the sidewalk so that the Of
ficer could not fire at him fear of hit.
ting someY Innocent party. Deputy
Parker, who saw Bonner escaping, how.
avar. was abba tn shoot at him twina
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23

TALoGA: Rev. John Hostetter, min.
ster of the Christian church and head
,lerk of the large mercantile establish.
nent of Allderdice g. Shuldice, was
aught robbing his employers. The firm
lloyed a watchman, who cut hole in
he ceiling above the cash drawer where
le had good view of the whole store
oom. Hostetter came in at midnight,
lelped himself and was gathered up by
he faithful watchman, Hostetter ac-
;nowledged his peculations to the
mount OF one thousand dollars and re-
mbursed the firm by deciding TO them
MS beautiful farm valued at two thou
and dollars.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
APt,ORIsMs.

Good humor makes all things toler-
able.-Beecher.
The unspoken word never does
harm.--Kossuth.
Ingratitude dries up the fountain OF
all goodness.-Bulwer.
Success covers a multitude of
blunders.-H. w. Shaw.
Who gives triie meanly is meaner
than the trifie.-Lavater.
Politeness costs little and yields
much.-Mme. de Lambert.
If principle is good for anything. it
is worth living up to.-Franklin.
True dignity is never gained by
place. and never lost when honors are.
Massinger.
No one ever sowed the grain of
generosity who gathered not up the
harvest of the desire of his heart
Saadi.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
SANTA FE ACQUISITION
Distance To the Principal Northern Cite
to be shortened.

Distance To the Principal Northern Cities
to be shortened.
MUSKoEEE: There was "A meeting of
capitalists at Tulsa few days since,
supposedly officers eff the Santa Fe, at
which meeting it was decided to pur-
chase the new line of railway from Red
Fork TO Shawnee and Pauls Valley, on
which a part of the grade has already
been made, as well as the survey that
has been approved by the secretary of
the interior from Red Fork 10 Musko-
gee and from Owassa to the end of the
Santa Fe line south from Wichita to
Tulsa. Red Fork is just across the Vir-
digris river from Tulsa. These new
lines are to be taken up at once, and, it
is believed here, will be built as soon as
it is possible to construct them. 1t is
also believed now that the Muskogee
Southern, running from Muskogee 10
Shreveport, is Santa Fe line. The
new line will parallel the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas line from Muskogee 10
Tulsa, a distance of sixty-four miles.
BY this route the Santa Fe can shorten
its line from Shawnee to Kansas City
eighty-seve miles, and to st. Louis and
Chicago 10 miles.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
MURDERED WITH AN AK

Wife Is Under Arrest ON the Charge of
Killing Her Husband
VINTTA: Charles B. Rhodes, Deputy
United States Marshal, has brought to
this place for safe keeping Mrs. Caroline
q. Barron on Il charge of numbering her
husband, Calvin G. Barron, near West.
vile, l. T. The Barron family We're
travelling through the country bound
for Texas and were camped near the
Shiloh school house in the country near
Westville and some time during the
night a deep cash was cut with an ak in
the forehead of the sleeping man and
also several deep gashes in the side and
back of his head. Little can be learned
regarding the family On the person
of the murdered man Yas found a mar
riage certificate setting forth that Cal
vim Barron and Caroline Y. Bell were
married in Crawford county, Arkansas /;
also a typewriter certificate setting
forth that the bearer, Calvin C. Barron,
was travelling through the country in
hopes of reaching Texas, and was
worthy Of assistance. This paper bears
the typewritten signature of G. w.
Smith, but the date and locality where
written cannot be made out. There
are no witnesses to the killing.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
INDIAN ASKS DAMAGE
Sues Member of Another Tribe Who Shot
Him

Sues Member of Another Tribe Who Shot
Him
GUTHRIE: An Indian case entirely
new III lis features is puzzling the attor-
ueys of the territory, and will be passed
up to the government for solution. Rob
ert Whitec.oud, an Iowa Indian, was
arrested for shooting James Daily, an
Otoe Indian, but was exonerated on the
grounds of justitable shooting. Daily
recovered and has brought suit against
Whitecloud for $4,000 damages. This
is the first instance of the kind among
Indians on record aud Oklahoma law
yers state that it can come only in the
jurisdiction of the Commissioner of In
dian Affairs, as it involves separate
tribes.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23

VENITA: The ag tatlon for full title
to allotment with all necessary protec-
tion n,granted to full bloods and incompe-
tents which has been going on in the
Territory for some time is evidently
gaining strength. 1t has become known
that the four great railroad systems
which have interests in the Indian ter
ritory will endeavor to induce Congress
to grant permission to the Indians to
sell portion of their lands to actual
settlers at oncs instead of compelling
them to wait until 1906, They will ask
the assistance of the great manufacture
ing corporations throughout the couh-
try as we'll as the eastern lines, all OF
which are indirectly interested in tho
problems which now confront the In.
dian territory railroads.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23

w. S. Myers aud son, John, were ar.
rested near Gosnell. They are charged
With wholesale cattle stealing. Myers
had been i'll the butcher business at
iosnell and when his shop was searched
hides with the brands of stolen cattle
we're found.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23
BITS OF PHILOSOPHY.

A good citizen is preferable to a
good fellow in any community
When a man pursues an uncertainty
he is not likely to land anything bet
ter.
History records the deeds of the
few and preserves the virtues of the
many.
The law of gravitation apparently
affects some men more forcibly than
it does others.
1t is not what men strive for. but
what they achieve, that marks the
steps of progress.
APk,ORISMS
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23

SOUTH MCALEsrER: For several
months there have been stories ahoat
regarding the alleged finding of Mrs
l.. w. Bryan, who was lost in the Gal
weston disaster, These reports have
all been Investigated and their origin
found to be the work OF enemies Of
Mr.. Bryan's. There is absolutely
no truth in the report Mrs,
Bryan and daughter were visiting
at Galveston when the city was storm
swept No trace could be found of
either. Mr.. Bryan offered large re-
wards for any information of the lost
ones and spent considerable time per.
sonally searching all over the coast.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23

"All of this mohey has been deposited
in the subtreasury of the United States
At ST Louis to the credit of the Greek
Nation
Il have also received from Hon. iJ.
| Blair Shoenfelt, United States Indian
! Agent, a statement showing the amount
which has been paid out on Greek war
rants during the last year as follows;
school sl,O6 02
General funds 4a,S22 vi
Total ....... ......... $3.50, so IL
| Paid Creek lndigents -...-.... 5,sN 90
! The revenues accruing to the nation
Tor the year about to end have been
quite satisfactory aud far in excess of
that of last year, which amounted TO
$40, 155. %, and by the exercise Of econ
| omy in appropriations there should be
no valid reason why the Greek national
warrants should not continue to com
mand fair and reasonable value. The
| Greek finances are in good shape, and /
hope it will so continue as long as our
government i'll its last existing days
shall continue. While it may prove
somewhat inconsistent with some of us
to adopt the new mode of life, yet | feel
that i'll the end we will be better off as
| individuals, and l think we should con
tinue to maintain our financial condi-
ton in its prevailing high standard.
III. c. FISHER, Treasurer.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23

Two of the Hunter members of tho
-Choctaw senate are participating With
the McCurtain council. All of the 9th,
'ers are holding aloof.