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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-15
CHEROKEE FREEDMEN DARK
PAGE OF INDIAN HISTORY
from saturdays Dany.

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The United States government,
agreed with the Cherokee people more
than a dozen years ago to have q com
mission to make roll of the Cher
okee freemen who claimed rights in
the Cherokee country-by yiture OF
their being former slaves. or descend
ants Of former slaves Of Cherokee n
dams. The government was to ap-
point one commissioner, the freedmen
to name one, and the Cherokee Nation
70 name member After this com
mission finished its work, the roll
made of freedmen was called tile
IKern-Clifton roll That this roll was
inaccurate, and had names on it, that
|rightfully did not belong there, was
the contention of the Cherokee people
though this unjust and wrongful roll
was forced upon the Cherokee people
for a while, or until tha government
by an act Of congress, in 1901, con-
|stituted what was known as the Dawes
Commission TO make correct roll of
|all citizens of the Cherokee Nation,
with authority to eliminate all names
of any class of people it thought had,
|wrongfully or inadvertently, been put
there. In doing this the Dawes Com
mission found ZOO negroes had been
|enrolled as Cherokee freedmen who
were not entitled, and authorized by
congress, expunged this number of
names from the Kern-Clifton roll. The
action of the Dawes Commission was
to be final-as to all classes of citi-
zens OF the Dnerokee Nation. But
what do we find? These freedmen
carrying their cases, which were de-
cided against them by the Dawes
Commission, to the secretary of the
interior, and from that office to the
|eourt of claims This too. after the
government had made a solemn agree
ment with the Cherokee Nation that
the finding of the Dawes Commission
should be final Yet. Notwithstanding
this agreement. these 100 rejected
negroes go to the court of claims and
ask judgment against the Cherokees
for 81 100000 for the rights they claim
ed in the Cherokee lands and monies,
when. and after the only tribunal au-
thorized to pass on their rights said
they had none. Now the case goes to
the supreme court, where the Chero-
kee people expect this great wrong
and Judgment viii be set aside-at
least they hope for just decision
from this great court. If these Indian
people are to suffer for this great
thy will if the supreme
court does not right it-no civilized
or Christianized people on the face
Of the earth will ever have cause to
look upon page of history so dark
as this will be, when this history OF
the great American government is
that will chronicle an episode
an Indian people we're des-
Doiled Of their heritage and made pau
pers-and homeless in land they
once owned.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-15
Billy SUNDAY viii Come to Tulsa.

Tulsa, Okla, Dec. H. - At every
evangelical church in the city yester-
day petitions were presented to which
were obtained thousand signatures
requesting Billy Sunday the eyange-
list, to conduct a religious campaign
in this city. Mr.. Sunday has promised
Tulsa a date and will make his first
in Oklahoma here
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-15
PROTECTIVE TARIFF
IS MYTHICAL

Washington. d. C.. Dec. s.-Many
have thought the United States 50 pre-
eminent in agriculture that il could
feed the earth without asking much
odds Of the rest Of the world and yet,
according TO the secretary Of agricul.
ture, We imported In 1911 the very
considerable value Of s6s7 600 900
worth OF things taken from the land.
In some things the United States is
forging rapidly ahead For instance.
as the Washington Times remarked
editorially a few days ago, the Thanks
giving tables of the country we're once
furnished forth with raisins and
oranges grown beyond the sea. while
now both Of these Injuries are grown
in the United States to the exclusion
almost wholly OF the foreign articles.
a generation ago this country pro-
duced no lemons. Now California pro-
duces one-half Of all the country con-
sumes. and it could produce the other
half also; incidentally, the price to the
consumer has decreased. OF course,
these feats in home production have
been accomplished with the aid Of
tariff protection. But how do the
Italian producers OF lemons still man
age to sell one-half or more of the
lemons consumed In the United
States2 First. through cheaper con
ditions Of production. especially in la
Dor; cheap ocean freights. and gov.
ernmental subsidy Secondly, by a
system Of rebates, part Of which comes
out Of the revenues Of the United
States.
Ocean freight from Sicily to New
York amounts 20 about IS cents per
box, but the steamship companies give
a rebate Of cents, which goes into a
slush fund used by the exporters in
Palermo and the importers in New
York to work for reduction In the
tariff levied by the United States. In
addition to this. there is rebate of
cents box on all lots of 1000 boxes
or more. These rebates. it is said,
have amounted to more than 100000
in a single year. The trade has been
compelled to take notice of these re-
bates. Recently the New York fruit
exchange issued a circular showing
that the brokers got the amount Of the
rebate from the importers, that the re-
bate 8as deducted from the price the
fruit brought at auction. and that in
consequence the published auction
prices were higher than the prices ac-
tually paid
There is another rebate enjoyed by
the importers of lemons This is
granted to them by the United States
government on fruit imported which
is claimed to be decayed and so ad-
judged by the inspectors. In the per-
iod from January to September, 1909 |
the total duty collected on lemons
was $1,212.0S9S4, and of this s1S1.-
$3.50, or 10.9 per cent was paid back
in rebates. In June the rebates were /
1873 per cent, in July 13 per cent. and
in August l6 per cent of the duty paid.
During the same period in 1910, the
amount of duty collected was s1,736,-
3O1.O5, of which 1853, ,O39.SO, or g. per
cent was rebated. making the average
rebate for two years 81 per cent; but
in May, 1910, the rebate amounted to
1916 per cent. and in June 1871 per
cent of the total collections; so that
10 this extent the protection" of the
tariff is mythical
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-15
TAKES A NATIONAL CHARTER
Oklahoma State Bank of Muskooee
Hh,nnnr IAr Hnlnrn

Muskogee, Okla, Dec 1t-The ok
lahoma State bank win open here to-
day as the Oklahoma National bank
under a national charter. The capital
has been increased from 100000 to
100000.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
!NsURING VALUABLE MEN
Large Concerns Now Take Out Poll.
eies on the Lives OF Their High
Grade Employees.

Insuring valuable men in corpo-
rations and manufacturing concerns
is the latest form Of insurance. In
the textile industry, for example.
this plan is being tried in the case
Of officials and employees whose tech
meal knowledge is of a high order.
In New York state mill the life of
a man recently engaged under con-
tract for a term of years to take
charge of manufacturing DEPART
ments has been insured by the pro-
prietors for $4,000, running the
length of time the contract is in
force. Several insurance companies
are engaged in thu line of business,
and it is probable that before long
the custom will be as common to in.
sure the lives of competent men as
it is to insure property against loss
by fire. 1t is said the system en-
courages Contract positions for mer
of value and that the idea is as feas
ible as that Of insuring the honesty
of officials by surety companies
Boston Globe.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
MURDERED" MAN WAS ALIVE
ing Twenty Years for the Sup
posed Killing of Another.

More extraordinary than the wild.
est plot of the novelist, are the cir
cumstances under which Roger viii.
liams, who was sentenced to 40 year.
imprisonment for murder, has been
released after serving half his sem
tence. This followed the startling
discovery that Bernard Carter, the
man whom he was supposed to have
murdered, is alive, wealthy and well.
Williams and Carter quarreled in the
spring of 1890. Meeting on cattle
trail, Williams stabbed Carter and
flung the body into the Pecos river.
A few weeks later body was dis
covered and identified as that of Car
ter. The Identification, it now
turns out was erroneous, for Carter,
by miracle, was rescued in an UNI
conscious condition from the river
and sent to hospital at Ell Paso.
Carter has now secured a pardon for
Williams, whom he is providing
with good home for the rest of his
life.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
"MAsLIN" BREAD.

Among many curious consequences
of the general election one comic re-
suit is that rye bread, which played
an important part in the political
controversies, has become a favoritc
Wand of the house Of commons. It
is also, probably from curiosity, in
frequent demand at most London
restaurants. Rye, now seldom seen
in England, was formerly grown a
good deal in Lincolnshire, together
with wheat and barley. From the
combined flour Of these three cereals
was made the "maslin" bread, much
appreciated by Tennyson's northern
farmer" The wheat gave strength,
the barley sweetness, and the rye the
quality of keeping moist for weeks
"Maslin," variously spelled, seems
obviously the short for "miscella-
neous."
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
THE BEAVERS MEMORY.

Memory handed down through 80
generations is one of the perplexing
facts of science. The beaver -four
ished along French rivers until
killed off for its fur, but is now
known only in about dozen of it's
villages on the Rhone near Avignon.
For three centuries these villages
have had no trees to cut down for
dams. The animals were compelled
to adopt new mode of life, and
have burrowed in the banks, shaping
mud with their tails as usual. Re-
Gently some of them were taken by
a Polish count to forests on his es-
tates. Very strangely, they resumed
the habits dropped three centuries
before they were born, and at once
began cutting trees and building
dams.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
BUSY PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN
Operates Dredges for Pumping Coal
and Sand From the River
Bottom.

Prominent as the oldest member
of the old Ross family Of Buena Wis
ia, along the Susquehanna river, a
suburb Of Harrisburg, is Ellen Ross,
who, although in her SEVENTEEN year,
carries on the unique business
among women Of this section that
of digging or pumping sand and
coal from the bed of the Susque-
hanna river and disposing of it as
fuel and building material.
The supply is unlimited and for
years the watermen along the place
where the Lykens valley joins the
Susquehanna in the north to a point
away below Harrisburg have main
tanned fleets Of boats with steam
pumps to get out the buckwheat
coal that lodges by thousands of
tons on bars and behind rocks and
the sand that forms in the bed of
the river and is considered I'M
equaled for building purposes.
It was such an unusual business
for woman to engage in that her
neighbors laughed and predicted
that she would soon grow tired of it.,
says a correspondent of the Balti-
more News. But they didn't know
Mrs. Ross. She went at the bust
ness with vim and energy and has
kept at it ever since.
Every morning, when conditions
are favorable, the directs her force
of fifteen men to the spots where
coal and sand arc to be had, and
from time to time visits them to see
that everything is all right-that
the men are working the pumps in
good condition and the stuff is be-
ing taken ashore and unloaded for
the market.
Despite her age she keeps business
going, and undoubtedly holds the
record as the most remarkable bust
ness woman in Pennsylvania.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17


We are in receipt this week of
the first issue of the Watauga Pro-
gress, which is a neatly gotten up
six column quarto paper, two pages
home print and is being launched
by Arthur L. Lansing. Watauga
is in Corson county, the first town
west of Mcintosh, and judging
from the liberal advertising the
Progress receives we infer that the
town is on the map to stay and
that its citizens welcome and fully
appreciate the efforts of Mr.. Lam
sing to give them good paper.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17

the world he had lived in than the
thought that he had met Stuyvesant
Fish and fought him and beaten
him? sSMust a game be played for
the sake Of pelf?" as Browning once
asked. Can't our boys find some
thing else to inspire them than the
hope of beating another boy? If a
boy can ride his horse over the
fences, and swim across the lake,
and run swiftly, and hit the mark,
and feel his pulse beat strong and
true, and his nerves and muscles I'M
der sure control, does it make him
any more the master of the world
about him that he can beat some
other boy? Is it reaching the stand
ard, or beating some one to it, that
really counts -McCready Sykes, in
Everybody's.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
Friday, March II, 1911.

In view of the fact that large
number of people are coming into
the country just now for the first
time, perhaps a few words Of adj
vice might not be out OF place. If
the stranger happens to run across
an animal with long ears, weighing
about twenty pounds, hopping
along as if one of his hind legs was
broke, don't try to catch him for
there is nothing the matter with
him. There is never anything the
matter with the hind legs of jack
rabbit and it is notorious fact
that nothing in the line of animals
which old Noah brought out of the
ark, can travel as fast. When a
Dewey county jack rabbit is feel
ing fairly we'll, he can take all ear
" breakfast of buffalo grass, hop
along down to Kansas in time to
nibble a little fresh corn for a mid
day lunch and be down in Texas
in plenty of time for supper. So
we repeat. stranger, don't try to
catch a jack rabbit whatever YOU
do for it's awful discouraging bust
ness.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
WHAT SUCCESS REALLY IS
Is II Just Reaching the Standard, or
Beating Someone to 1t That
Counts?

Suppose all of Harriman's trans
cendent genius had been expended in
building up the best railroad system
that could be made, in vanquishing
time and space, and demonstrating
what could be accomplished by the
indomitable will and purpose and
-untiring effort of the strong man.
Mightn't the net result have been
something finer and better than Har-
riman ever attained, and mightn't
he have gone from earth with some
liner memory to take with him of
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
A GLORIOUS PART.

CAT last" exclaimed the low
comedian, 81 have part that just
suits me-"
"Good," said the first old lady.
"You are the only actor 1 ever knew
who was thoroughly satisfied with
his part. What is it?"
ooh, the part isn't much, as far
as that goes, but Pm supposed to be
a burglar, and I break into a pantry
and eat real meal at every per-
formance."
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
ATMOSPHERE OF IMMUNITY.

$50 you are going into politics ="
said the candid friend.
II am" replied Mr.. Sirius Barker
81 shouldn't think a man of your
irascible disposition would find such
matters congenial."
CHATS just the point. Politics
provides the only opportunity
know of saying outrageous things
about people without risking a libel
s,ljt."
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
WHERE IT COMES FROM.

Hoax-That doctor spends money
like water.
Joax-Yes; and he doesn't get it
from the we'll, either.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
WASTED.

Maud-Is Clara good girl to tell
q secret to?
Ethel-Oh my, no! Why, she'll
never tell soul.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
ITS NATURAL RESULT.

sDon't you think an empty stock
ing ought to appeal to the general
charity?"
eyes, it ought to make the folks
toe the mark"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
SALE OF INDIAN LANDS
CHEYENNE RIVER AGENCY, SOUTH DAKOTA


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Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
A REAL TOUCH.

ssDo you know, L think my play
needs a big touch somewhere"
"Make the hero borrow $780,"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17

Said one little oyster to his COM
panion as they reclined in the cor
ner of a big pot filled with milk,
all ready for the stew: Where
are we?' At a church supper
was the reply. Whereupon the
first little oyster said: What on
earth do they want of both of us?"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17

And now comes President Diaz
and states that the rumors that
were circulated in this country last
week as to his death, were to say
the least, greatly exaggerated.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17

Both the hobble" and the Harem
skirts received severe setback in
the Illinois legislature last week at
the hands of one, Edward J. Muir
phv, a Chicago member of that
body. He has introduced bill
making it unlawful for any female
to appear in public adorned with
either of these innovations in dress
gear. Why. says Mr.. Murphy,
some OF the women you seen on
the streets of Chicago can't step
more than five or six inches at a
time. They have to pull them on
with a shoe horn" With refer
ence to the Harem skirt he says
that they make woman look like
the picture on box of Egyptian
cigarettes" Mr.. Murphy thinks
this is a step backward toward
mediaevalism and if we are not
careful we will be like
The poor benighted Hindoo
Who does the best he kindo.
He sticks to his caste
To the very last,
And for pants makes his skin do. "
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17
Bids to open April %, 1911.
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NOMCOMPETENT INDIAN LANDS
Listed for sale February %, 1911.

Listed for sale February q, 1911.
Allot.
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AS Wipehinsa or Red lair
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or White Eagle
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High Rock
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-17

Judging from the echos it is not
all easy sailing for the reciprocity
adherents across the border. An
ex-secretary of the treasury voices
his opposition to the measure in
the following strong language:
There is danger, deep danger, on
this path we have entered. 1t
leads away from home. pray,
sir, the full meaning of this first
step may soon burst upon the
Canadian parliment and the Can
adam people. This land is ours.
We have made it. Please God we
keep it an abiding national home
for our childrens' children to re-
mote generations of happy citizens
of an empire whose name is syno-
nymous with liberty and whose
permanence makes for the triumph
of the highest civilization and
worldwide peace. This proposal
cuts square across this ideal, en-
dangers it and may overthrow it
entirely. 1t will weaken the ties
of empire, weaken the affections of
new generations. and create new
attachments till, like Samson of old,
we shall be shorn of our strength. ;"
Milford chronicle., 1911-07-07
BAILEY EEFENDS SECESSION
Says Jefferson Davis Was Less Respon.
sible For War Than Any other Man.

Says jefferson Davis Was Less Respon.
sible For War Than Any Other Man.
Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas,
while addressing the Confederate vet
erans in Washington in observance OF
the birthday of Jefferson Davis, said
Davis was less responsible for the
conflict between the states than any
other man, and was the last man in
all the south to abandon the hope of a
reconciliation
THE truth of history was with the
Confederate people, said the senator
"The fathers would never have form
ed this Union if they had not believed
it could be dissolved for cause; if the
southern people believed that they
could not remain in the Union with
honor and safety they had a right to
secede."
Senator Bailey presented an aged
colored man, James A. Jones, who
served as Mr. Davis body servant.
He is the only man living" said
Senator Bailey, who knows where the
seal of the Confederate states is and
he won't tell"
Milford chronicle., 1911-07-07
PRESIDENT AND
ROOSEVELT MEET
Cardinal GibbOnS Completes
Group and Crowd Cheers.

President Taft and former President
Roosevelt met at the dual jubilee Of
Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore.
Mr.. Roosevelt was the first on the
scene and went on the speakers plat
form before any of the other 500 or
more public men, in the coat and hat
rooms downstairs, had reached it. He
got an ovation, the great audience
breaking out into a prolonged cheer.
After all the guests had been seat
ed, President Taft and the cardinal
appeared on the front of the stan0
The chairs had been so arranged that
the president was to sit on the right
of the cardinal and Roosevelt to the
right of Taft.
The president, the colonel and the
cardinal took their seats. For a frac-
tion Of a second the eyes of Taft and
the colonel did not meet. Each seemed
to be looking away from the other.
Then President Taft spoke to the
cardinal and motioned to Roosevelt.
All three rose to their feet and ap-
preached one another. President Taft
presented Roosevelt to the cardinal,
the prince of the church grasping the
hand of the lion hunter with vigor and
warmth. The little drama caught the
vast throng. Peace and good will was
written all over it. The multitude
broke out into a great cheer. President
Taft had broken the ice. When they
were seated again the president lean
ed over and borrowed a program from
Roosevelt. They smiled at each other
now and then as brief remarks passed
or they nudged each other with elbow
or hand.
When President Taft had finished
his address. Roosevelt was quick to
him, and when Roosevelt
had completed his remarks the presi- |
dent was equally eager with words of !
praise for the colonel Then they
smiled and chatted across the arms |
of their chairs as if they were having
a love feast.