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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-05-06
A CHEROKEE SPECIAL
FOR THE DELIVERY OF CHER
OKEE DEEDS.
FREEDMEN DEEDS ARE HELD Up
A Whole Month Will Be Required
to Make the Trip From Forum
to Fort Gibson.

From a special car which will make
trip through the Cherokee nation
the Commissioner to the Five Civil
lied Tribes will deliver deeds to the
Cherokee nation, beginning at Forum,
l. r., Friday, May 81, and finishing at
Fort Gibson, Saturday, June 20.
Commissioner Bixby has given out
the following official notice:
The secretary of the interior on
May 8, 1906 Il. T. D. 7634-l9O6),
authorized the Commissioner to the
Five Civilized Tribes to proceed with
the delivery of recorded deeds to citi-
zens of the Cherokee nation, such de-
livery to be made by the commissioner
at the Muskogee Office, upon the re-
quest of allottees; and after reason
able time, at advertised points
throughout the nation convenient to
the citizens Of the tribe.
Notice is hereby given that the
commissioner WILL on Friday, May 81,
1907, begin the delivery OF deeds to
allotments of citizens by blood of the
Cherokee nation. Only a few deeds
for Cherokee freedmen having been
recorded, no such deeds will be deliv-
cred at this time.
For this purpose representatives OF
the commissioner will visit the follow
ing towns and make delivery of deeds:
'9rum, afternoon of Friday, May 81,
a Saturday, June I.
" .lgoner, Monday, June g.
Claremore, Tuesday, June 4.
Nowata, Wednesday, June 5.
Lenapah, Thursday, June 9.
Bartlesville, Friday, June 7.
Ramona, Friday, June 8, $50 p, m.
to II a m., Saturday, June g.
Collinsville, afternoon, Saturday,
June
Tulsa, Moniay, June 10.
Chelsea, Tuesday, June H.
Vinita, Wednesday and Thursday,
June 12 and 13.
Pryor Creek, Friday, June H.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-05-06
HONOREDI TELLS P|TIFUL STORY
Judge Parker Has Strange Visitor
With Woeful Stoly--Walked
From Sallisaw.

Sorefooted and almost exhausted, a
poor Swede, giving his name as Zawas-
va, found his way to Judge Parker's
chamber Saturday and told pitiful
story fhow he had been tieeced by
wary Indian Territory land sharks.
Zawasva said that few weeks ago
he had come to the Territory and
rented a farm few miles from Salli-
saw. He claims to have paid part OF
OF the rent in cash and gave his note
for the balance. He soon found he
was uninitiated ia the ways of the
CRATER, and the way of the unfortu-
nate who falls into their hands is
hard, The owner of the land got out
a writ Of eJection against Zawasva,
and ousted him from the farm. Ac-
cording to the Swede's story he had
invested all the money he had liz the
farm, and walked from Sallisaw to
this place to see Judge Parker about
the matter. The judge was touched
by the story, and promised an inyesti-
CATION Of the matter and gave the
poor fellow money enough to take him
back to Sallisaw. This state Of affairs
is only another result Of the imperfec-
tions Of the present system of carpet
bag government in the Indian Terri
tory.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-05-06
Welch, Saturday, June Is.
Afton Monday. June II.

AllOIl, mOuudys uiC -
Southwest City, from 1885 a. m
Tuesday, June Is, to 1:3O p. m
Wednesday, June 49,
Sloan Springs, Thursday, June 20
Westville, Friday, June Il.
Tahlequah, afternoon Saturday
June %, and forenoon Monday, JUNE
"a.
| Stillwell, Tuesday, June 20.
Salllsaw, Wednesday, June 26.
Illinois, Thursday, June q.
Braggs, Friday, June rs.
Fort Gibson, Saturday, June 29
The deeds will be delivered from
car to be used for that purpose and as
the movement thereof is dependent
upon railroad connections, no devia'
tion from the schedule as above adver-
tised, can be made.
All persons entitled to receive deeds
should be prepared to meet the party
at one of the points advertised upon
the date and between the hours indi-
Gated.
No deeds will be ready for delivery
at these appointments for new born
children of Cherokee citizens enrolled
under the act of April 26, 1906, nor
for selectiors which were not com
pleted to the appraised value OF at
least 1920 prior to August !, 1905.
From May 81 to June 80, 1907, in
elusive, the delivery of deeds at Mus
kogee will be suspended and action
upon such written requests as may be
received will be delayed until the re-
turn of the field party from the ad-
yertised appointments.
Deeds will be delivered to the head
of family for himself, his wife and
minor children.
Deeds to minor allottees where legal
guardians have been appointed, will
be delivered to the guardians upon
the presentation of the letters Of
guardianship.
Deeds to deceased allottees will be
delivered administrators upon the
presentation of letters of administra-
tion.
1t will greatly facilitate the work
of delivery of the deeds if allottees
appearing at these appointments have
with them their allotment certificates
or furnish their proper roll numbers.
The delivery Of deeds is without ex-
pense to the allottees, and citizens are
warned against the payment of any
money or other consideration to per-
sons for procuring the delivery Of
deeds to which they are lawfully en-
titled. IAMs BIxBY,
Commissioner to the Five Civilized
Tribes.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-05-06

them to eat it up as they would the
Republicans on'the sixth of August,
and there was not so much as a crumb
left when the platter had been passed
around the festal board. About 1890
the toastmaster announced the con
clusion Of the official program, and
called for voluntary talks. After a
few were made The crowd broke Up
each knowing that this had been one
of the memorable events Of their lives,
and one Of good omen to Democratic
success in Craig county
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-05-06

first the country schools then gradu-
ating from a college in Virginia and
afterward in the law at Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn; after
almost seventeen years residence in
South McAlester In the practice Of
law, William J. Horton offers himself
for the Democratic nomination for
supreme Judge from supreme court
district No. l, which includes Pitts
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-05-06
william J. HORTON
A STRONG CANDIDATE FOR SUI
PREME JUDGE.
BELIEVES IN CONSTITUTION
Many Members of the Oklahoma
Bar Praises Him in Unusually
Strong Terms.

Born on q Mississippi farm, his youth
nutured amidst its activities as we'll
as its quiet and its musings; attending
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-05-06

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
A MODEL SBAND.

From the Mobile Register
 He lives in Chicago and his name is Hill. His wife's name is Emily M. Hill. She is a worker and so is her husband. But their spheres of labor are reversed Hill stays at home and does the cooking, dishwashing and sweeping. Mrs Hill de- votes her time to the great cause of temperance.
 At a recent meeting of the w. c. T. U. in the Windy City Miss Kennedy spread the fame of Hill by explaining that it was possible for Mrs. Emily Hill to give so much of her valuable time to the pub lie good because she received such spen- did support from her husmand When Mrs Hill is belated on account of long meetings" emphasized Miss Kennedy. MT. Hill just pays No attention to it, but goes ahead and gets the dinner himself" MT. Hill confirms the state ment, and declares that he has "a happy home and splendid wife"
 It is certainly resssuring to learn that the strenuous advocacy of prohibition by at least one wife has had the effect of developing model husband.
 Three cheers and an ocularly defective feline for MT Emily Hill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
The United States Steel.

''As to what plans the United States Steel corporation will make for extending the Tennessee plants no one knows, and the head officials will not know until they have had time to take up the matter and think it out" said Birmingham pioneer But it may be assumed that the new owners of the company's properties will complete, without delay, the development work now under way, and that in due time they will make the district hum.
 The entrace here of the biggest in dustrial corporation in the world means vast thing for Birmingham The Uni- ted States Steel has unlimited capital. and its policy is progressive to the last de- gree. Now that it has acquired the Ten nessee company it's directors seem elated over the fact 1 wondered that the steel corporation did not buy a control three years ago. It may have been that the men at the head of the corporation had their hands full then. The United States Steel has made millions and millions with In the past few years, and Is able to do and is doing, greater things today than ever The psychological moment came early this week and no time was lost in closing up the Tennessee deal. As Bir- mingham man remarked, the steel corpor- atfon has come to stay; the Tennessee company has changed hands for the last time.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
An Appeal te Reason

Two millions of people in Alabama engaged in the struggles and activities of life are not deeply interested, if at all, in the personal quarrel that has arisen over the regulation of railroads between Braxton Bragg Conner and Milton H. Smith. No small part of the ruction is of personal nature. Each is angry at and over the behavior of the other, and the entire quarrel be- tween them lacks dignity and the due fitness of things.
 Instead of hurling hard words at each other these two men, the one at the head of the state and the other at the head of the most important rail- road in the state, should be trying to serve the people of Alabama, who are the constituents of the one and the pNIi IiOho oi tuC otHcI lHStedu Ol seek ing first the welfare of 100000 Ala bamians, they are trying to outwrite. outtalk and outbanter each other.
 All this is hurtful to the best inter- ests of the people of Alabama in this difficult and trying crisis. Common sense dictates the coming together of the two men with a view of reaching a settlement of all the issues pending between them. They are each and all business issues, and there are not two men anywhere perhaps who are better equipped to consider and settle them These issues should be taken out of the realm of bitterness and brought into the realm of peace and horse sense. Not one of them is beyond solu- tion when treated in that way. Not one of them is difficult, not one is new. All the states have them. and in many of the states they have been adjusted harmoniously and satisfactorily.
 This Is what should be done here. This Is what Governor Conner and President Smith in the interest of 100000 Alabamians should and will do if they can drop the ego and all passion out of the case. The Age Herald appeals to these two men to get together for the sake of the good people to whom both are deeply in debted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
indifferent Police Force.

'"The blowing of our safe was undoubt- erly the work of experts" said C. E.. Osment of the firm of osment & Burkes, West End grocers. who were the victims of cracksmen Wednesday night Think ing the Birmingham police force were in- terested in any professional criminals who happened to be fin the district, I telephoned Chief Wiers office and asked if a man could be sent out to look at the job. l explained that l knew West End was not in the confines of Birmingham that the Birmingham police force had no authority there, and that I did not expect them to make any arrests as Sheriff Higdon was looking after that but that it might prove of benefit to the whole district If the workmanship could be recognized. l was very curtly Informed that they had nothing to do With the matter. I again very patiently explained my reason, and more abruptly than ever was told that they had nothing to do with it and cared nothing about it.
 If the Birmingham police force Is so careless and indifferent, Birmingham can hardly expect the suburbs to become part of G<eater Birmingham without a pro- test''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
THE MANSFIELD ESTATE.

From Leslies Weekly.
 Admirers of the late Richard Mansfield will hear with satisfaction that the emi- nent actor left substantial fortune esti- mated at from sSOo,OOO to s5Oo,O0o. Too often the public has been shocked to learn that a popular stage favorite, who must have earned far more than a competence by his art. has died in poverty; and benefit performances for the dependents of actors who should have died rich have been so common as to excite little sur prise.
 Much may be conceded to the artistic temperament, which finds attention to money matters irksome; but with the re- wards of moderate dramatic ability so great as they now are there can be no good reason, in the majority of cases, why actors of mark should save nothing of their large incomes. It is time that benefit funerals" should cease to be a reproach to the theatrical profession.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
Two Great Events

After many anxious inquiries, some of them of an official nature, the Geor- gia newspapers have come to the con clusion that E. H. Hartman has owned 29 900 shares of the Central of Georgia ever since the Southern parted with them. These 2900O shares carry a clear control of the property, for its entire stock issue is but 50,000 shares. The sale to Perry and Thorne appears to have been but an alleged sale, the real purchaser being Hartman. At any rate when the books of the Trust Company of America were investigated a loan of $2,0O0,OoO to Hartman was discovered, and the collateral behind it consisted of the 29,oo0 shares in question together with other securities In order to give the Trust Company of America ready money to meet the run upon it the loan of Hartman was transferred to J. P. Morgan and his associates.
 When Hartman pays the loan he will secure full possession of the 29,- 900 shares, and there will then be no doubt as to who controls the Central Railroad of Georgia. There is really none now. The road goes to B. H. Hartman, who no doubt intends to make 1t part of his great system reaching from sea to sea.
 Birmingham counts itself gainer from the stress and strain of the times in two respects. namely. the purchase of the Central Railroad of Georgia by the Illinois Central system, thus bring ing here that system in all its strength and aggressiveness, and, secondly, in the coming into this district of the Steel corporation, the unrivalled giant of the iron and steel trade. These two events are enough to fill this district with confidence even in the hardest of times. They are enough to keep affairs melpg here right along regard less of conditions elsewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
RECONSTRUCTED PHARAOH,

From the Washington Post.
 It Is curious how far the zoologists and paleontologists can go in recon structing an entire animal from one solitary bone A noted Psychologist who has been studying the mummy of Meneptah, declares that this ruler, the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt when the tribes of Israel departed from it, was very homely man, thick set and fat He was about 60 years old when he died. He was five feet, eight and a half inches in height, taller man than most of his contemporaries. He was very bald, and he had long and thin nose of the exterme Semetic type, in this resembling his relative, Rameses II. This famous Egyptologist declares that this Pharaoh must have suffered excruciatingly with the toothache, and 1t may have been his sufferings that caused his heart to be hardened against the tribes of Israel. Few of the teeth of Pharaoh remain and they are much decayed. The scientists have gone fur ther, however, and they declare that Pharaoh most probably had the gout, for his blood vessels and his ribs show unmistakable signs of chalky degener- ation. One thing the Psychologists do not explain. and that is how 1t comes that Meneptah's mummy exists at all, for the Bible says that he and all his men were overwhelm by the Red Sea. Their theory Is that the boy was wash ed ashore and afterward buried in pOmp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09

Lincoln Trust. So rapidly are the banks gathering cash that they are sending word to their country corre- spondents that they will soon be ready to furnish currency with which to move cotton, wheat, corn and oats. Such aid, says President Woodward of the Hanover National bank of New York, will be extended within a few days throughout the south.' Even without New York aid the home banks are gathering strength and cash, and they, too, will soon begin to send currency to the country for crop-moving pur- poses. The First National bank of this city has already begun the good work
 When the crop movement is again in full swing with currency moving stead- fly from the money centers to the agricultural districts there remains but one step more in order to restore af- fairs to normality That step consists in an ending of the scrip period. The scrip period of 1893 was six weeks long, and there is no reason why the scrip period of 1907, when few failures have occurred and the heart of the country is sound and strong, should run to the limit of 1893. The present month should, in fact, as things are going, bring an ending of the currency embargo which may not be serious, but which certainly is inconvenient at times and places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
SNUBBING BoRES.
How Youngster Stopped His Long
 Minded Uncle.

A. c. Benson in Putnam's for Novem- Der.
 A friend of mine returned the other day from an American tour, and told me that he received a severe rebuke. out of the mouth of babe. which cured him of expatiating on his experiences. He lunched with his brother soon after his return and was holding forth with consciousness of brilliant descrip- tive emphasis. when his eldest nephew. aged s, toward the end of the meal laid down his spoon and fork and said pite- ously to his mother, Mummy I must talk; 1t does make me so tired to hear uncle going on like that"
 A still more effective rebuke was ad- ministered by a clever lady of my ac- quaintance to cousin of hers, a young lady who had just returned from India and was very full of her experiences. The cousin had devoted herself during breakfast to giving lively descrip- tion of social life In India, and was preparing to spend the morning in con- tinuinE her lecture, when the elder lady slipped out of the room and re- turned with some sermon paper, a plotting book and a pen.
 Maud" she said, this is too good to be lost; you must write 1t all down, every wordv'
 The lesson was not thrown away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
RUSSIA STILL STRONG.

From the Washington Post.
 "The war with Japan weakened Rus sia only temporarily, and within dozen years she is likely to regain what she has,lost and more,' said Heinrich R. Ben signer, an advocate of Berlin, at the Arlington yesterday.
 'The press of the world has been full of the internal troubles of the Russian empire, with the result that attention has been diverted from the fact that Russian power has been silently extend ing, just as 1t has for many decades. Her naval strength was destroyed by Ja- pan but 1t will not take her long to build another navy. At the close of the war Russia had 917, 900 men, 12, 300 officers, and 1900 guns in the field, and if 1t were not for the alliance between Great Britain and Japan. which expires in seven more years, Russia would be in a far better position than she has been to wage war in the far east.
 T gained the impression when in St. Petersburg last summer that the Russians do not consider themselves whipped. They are convinced that the war was not @ proper trial of strength. Russia still con- trols three-fourths of the territory of Manchuria. and 17l3 versts of the original mileage of the Manchurian railways as against Japan's 660 versts. Her power has not been broken on the Pacific. The loss of Port Arthur has turned her at tention to Vladivostock, which she is making the strongest fortress in the world Shielded by ice five months of the year 1t is impregna ble.
 By the building of railways Russia is uniting her Asiatic empire. As her ambi- tions as well as those of Japan are cen tered in the Orient, the time is coming when the two will come into open con- fiict again; at least that is the general impression among farsig h ted men in Flu rope. It is believed that Japan is prepar- ing to meet a menace, but not that of the United States. She is preparing for another and greater struggle with Rus sia-a struggle on land
 Japan realizes that Russia is doing all she can to colonize her people in her ter ritores in Asia, and to offset it she is also sending her people over to the main land of the Asiatic continent. With these great forces contending for supremacy, France, Germany and the United States is interested because of the proximity of the northern boundary of India to the scene of action"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
Deleuates Mare Pleased.

"The delegates to the Association of Col leges and Preparatory Schools of the Southern States were splendid men, stated Dr. J. H. Phillips last night. There were some exceedingly bright minds among them. It is a great pleasure to mingle with men of their standard.
 They were well pleased with Birrning- ham, and I believe, with their entertain ment here. They were especially delighted with the Birmingham High school. Dr. Claxton of Tennessee declared that there was no other High school building in the south which could be compared to it. Chancellor Kirkland of Vanderbilt, de- clared that it was the busiest place not only In the south. but in the Birmingham district.
 During the sessions of the association. classes were heard in the High school, and the children were studying all around the delegates. The association was not disturbed in it's deliberations, however. and the students were not interrupted at al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
Gold Imports and Currency

The Lusitania, carrying at record speed $10.0O0, 900 in gold, steamed tc her pier yesterday morning. The en agreements of gold already exceed $40, count rates in money centers across the sea the aggregate imports of gold just beginning to ship the surpluses of pur crops of the year
 All along the financial line the situa Sion Is improving. After paying to scared depositors over $34.o00. 900 Oak peigh Thorne's Trust of America has yeathered the storm. and so has the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 6HE casual traveller from the west k0 who visits the east cannot fail
 to be impressed with certain marked characteristics of the Atlantic seaboard. Boston and New, York are not so foreign London. But each of them has it's own distinctive atmosphere Towns of course, may be viewed from many standpoints, and their most inn portant traits may not always show them selves to the nasty observer. But in one aspect in particular Boston and New York are worth looking at and contrast ing-n that of their attitude toward the past and present.
 In Boston, which embodes the quintes- sence of New England, the traveller is constantly reminded that he is on his- toric ground. Signs in large, green let ters mark the sites of ancient buildings. Every April the ceremony of hanging out the lanterns in the steeple of Christ church in memory of Paul Rever's ride is religiously observed. The bill to prevent further burials within the city limits was killed because of the. influence of the old families whose ancestors lie in Copps hill or the Old Granary burying ground.
 It is quite conceivable that a man could spend his life in Boston and still feel him. self rank outsider. Society," there is fixed static. Undoubtedly Baedeker is correct in saying that mere wealth counts for less in Boston than in any other large American city At the same time you feel that Boston's eyes are fixed on the past: that it's chief gories are felt to lie in Colonial times and in the New