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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

Fnsley Methodists are much pleased
With the results of the appointments at
the conference Yesterday The return of
Rev. George e. Boyd was not unexpected,
but the members of the church We're glad
to know for a certainty.
Thursday morning at 1850 o'clock at
the First Presbyterian church, the
churches OF Ensley will have a union
Thanksgiving service. Rev. George L.
| Boyd. pastor Of tie Methodist church,
will preach the sermon. A voluntary
Thanksgiving offering will be taken and
the amount realized will be turned over
TO the Associated charities.
In the preliminary hearing before Judge
f o. Harris OF the inferior court yester-
day morning, John Thompson and Rube
Blaloclx We're held on $500 bond each. The
men were arrested Sunday morning by
Officers E1hank and Pope Il is stated
by the arresting. officers that the men
We're in car which had been Nhroken
open.
Wednesday afternoon Al the home of
Mrs. NJ. II. Mcdowell, Hilltop, st. Mar
garet's Guild of St Johns Episcopal
church will meet.
The Book Lovers club of Corey will be
entertained this afternoon by Mrs J. {.
Donald.
| The Enslsy lodge knights and Ladies
of Honor held an enthusiastic meeting
last night and a number of candidates
were given the initiatory degree. Sew
eral applications for membership were re.
ceived.
/ .,ax, :, 10 r.o ,,,n,1,o. - z,.{4,,n..os -.
examined. II is expected the grand jury
will make its final report to Judge Miller
the latter part of the week and make a
final adjournment
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

]. d Bdrts of this city and Col Robert
NJ, Howard of Columbus. Ga, have pur-
chased suburban home one and half
miles from the city which they will oe-
eupy after December /.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
Countess of Flanders Ill

Brussels. Belgium, November 25.--The
countess of Flanders. mother of King
Albert of Belgium, is seriously ILL., she
is suffering from an attack of pneumo-
MIA
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

A large brick storage house 10 be used
By the cowikee Cotton mills of the city
TO better facilitate the handling of their
goods is now under construction. in con-
neetion with that plant and IS being
rushed to completion as speedily as posi-
bic.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

The work of cane grinding is going on
N nearly every section surrounding tile
city and the crop is said to be unusually
fine this season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

The second week of the winter term of
the circuit court of Dallas county began
Monday morning and after the juries for
the week had been impaneled the criminal
docket was taken up. Upon the criminal
docket of the court there are a large
number of cases and the week promises
to prove very busy one. During the
week there will also be heard cases
against six negroes who are charged with
murder.
The grand jury of the circuit court of
Dallas county also began its second
weeks grind this morning and during the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
EUF AU[A STREET
FAIR ASUCCESS
Experiment May Be Re-
peated Next Year
CIRCUIT COURT MEETS
Eiks' Minstrel Thanks ;iving-Geor-
gians Invest in Alabama Lands.
$4,000 Secured for Road
Improvement

Eufaula, November 2s.-tSpeciaL AFTER
the rush and hustle of week with the
street fair in full progress all over the
business thoroughfares the city has again
assumed normal condition
'rhe fair has been pronounced a decided
suces~ only in the cleanliness OF
the variof1s -. ~at in financial way
both to the city ana - -amereial club
and many of the business M -nress
themselves as gratified with inereas~S
sales of merchandise.
The local lodge of Elks of the city
has announced a minstrel performance
which they viii present at the theatre
here on the evening of Thanksgiving
day. Among the cast are mentioned
II. c. Perkins, J. T. Mainor, William
Lampley, r. d. Thomas, e. C. corbitt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

Fire destroyed the kitchen and its
furnishings belonging to the home of
]. L Sapp on Randolph street Sunday
morning at y noon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

ana James Barr. while G. \. covey, G.
". Moulthrop aud L. Skinner are men-
toned among the soloists.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26
SIXTEEN FREIGHT
CARS IN THE DITCH
Wreck on Mobile Division of
Southern Is Caused by
Spreading Rail

Selma. November 25.-(SpeeiaL)-Six
teen cars on freight train No. 173, which
left Selma late Sunday afternoon over the
Southern railway for Mobile were wrecked
early Monday morning at wagar
about so miles south of Selma The train
was in charge of Conductor ]. V Cobb
and Engineer Bulger. Collins aud Just as
1t was going into Wagar the rails spread
causing the wreck of the sixteen freight
cars. The wreck was reported imme-
diately to the headquarters of the Mobile
division of the Southern railway here and
wreclser was sent to the scene. A side
track was built around the wrecked cars
and traffic was not delayed except hat
the morning local train from Suggsville to
Selma reached here about half an hour
behind schedule time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

Circuit court convened here this MORN
ing with Judge ]. NJ. Sollie presiding
the grand jury was organized and after
receiving most able and elodnent charge
proceeded upon their Investigation of
lawlessness and crime. The work of the
civil week will be light.
me finishing touches are being placed
he new postoffice building which it
Is HOP be in readiness for oeen-
pany by Jans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

Wednesday afternoon II the home of
Mrs. NJ. II. Mcdowell. Hilltop, st. Mar
garet's Guild of st. Johns Episcopal
church will meet
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-26

The Book Lovers club of Corey will be
entertained this afternoon by Mrs. J. {.
Donald
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20
Some Eacks By watsIIa.

Mr.. Chieftain, that newspaper.
going to say it me this time you about
1t some canidate going to run it again,
been lect 1t about five year, last time.
What this Injun say it one time can
say it two times. / don't owe it no
body something not paid no body
me, by gosh. just tell it alltime truth
you.
! going to tell it me Mr. Chieftain
you. can't see it how that Bob Nix
can ask it some body to vote it her
same Office next time primary way to
August next time tell it me, you.
hear it her that Nix say 1t, vote 1t
her lect to Office last time lexon she
run it no more this time. Step back
give room some body who want 1t that
office. tell it me Mr.. Chieftain you.
! speck she forgot it what she say, but
every body taint forgot it. hear it
keep mans say it like 1t this way. We
going to vote 1t new clerk in this
county next time at primary
/ see it she nonce 1t her self and ask
it some body to 1t vote her If thay like
il her rekord tell it you don't like
1T her reckord.
| see Callwell sue it her for this
Craig county about 100000, she spent
it for booze speck don't know what
else She bought / hear 1t some body
say it she drink it heep red whiskey
In court house. alltime be 1t drunk
I speck when she nounce 1t her self
in paper and ask it some body 10 vote
It her if thay like it her reckord. Well.
| speck it Bob can't sit 1t office no
more she spile it herself last tim This
Injun don't like 1t that kind, taint no
count to.
We going to lect it new mans next
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20

We, should have gotten by all the laws
of descent and distribution and what
we would have gotten had the pay
ment been per stripes instead of per
capita.
Now in order to prosecute this suit
it is necessary to get certain facts so
you will kindly send in your name
stating in full the name of the ances-
tor or ancestors you claim under and
whether you are entitled to one or
more shares, half shares, three-quar-
ter, quarter, eighth or what ever num-
ber you claim. This will enable us
to see how much money is due you.
and enauble us to know what to con-
tend for in law.
This money which was wrongfully
paid was due us June II, 1888, and
under the Articles /, 4, - and 10 of
the treaty of 1885, or Treaty of New
Echota, should have, in order to COM
ply with said articles of the treaty
been paid per stripes A per capita
payment to our ancestors means a
per stripes payment for us and it is
up to us to get-it.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20
COUNTY OFFICERS
ARE INDICATED

The cases of the county of King
fisher against Geo. l.. Bowman, as
county attorney; Geo. H. Woodworth,
county clerk; j. A. Linsey, county
commissioner and Col. Mills, county
commissioner, were all tried the last
day or two in the district court of this
county.
The county lost each and every case.
These cases We're brought on a report
made by examiners sent here 10 in
spect the books of the county officers
by the state administration under
Haskell, and the result of the trial
shows that the work of these examin-
ers was incompetent Or
They were paid by this county 81,
10000 for their work, and the county
officers, through their attorneys, Lee
NJ. Gray and P. S. Nagle, hired J. S.
Thompson of Oklahoma, an expert ex-
aminer and accountant to do identi-
cally the same work in behalf of the
officers.
Thompson went through the work
of the county clerk and brought the
county clerk out $4O0 long, or in other
words the county was owing Wood
worth, county clerk, $40O After a
judicial examination of the Wood
worth case the court found that Wood
worth was $500 long or that the coun-
ty owed Woodwork $500.
The report made by the examiner,
Thompson, in regard to Bowman and
Miles, Downing, and Lindsey brought
the officers out square to a cent and
the judicial examination again verified
Thompson to cent.
Now the particular thing that we
wish to call attention to is the fact
that the county paid the state exam
iners 100000 We of course, do not
know what the county officers paid
this expert accountant, but probably
not to exceed $4,000 and we would
suggest to the state administration
that they had better employ men that
understand their business.
At the time this report was made
against these officers we We're inclined
TO think something was wrong with
the report on account of the standing,
character and reputation of these men
in the community, and we now con-
gratuIate each and every one Of them
on their complete vindication. And
We resret aid every honest man re-
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20
GUARANTY LAW NO
FEDERAL QUESTION
Oklahoma Banks suit Remauded to
State Court and Another viii
Test Boards Powers.

Oklahoma City, March ls.-Deelar-
ing that a federal question does not
exist in the case of the Peoples Ma
tional bank of Kingfisher against the
state banking board, Federal Judge
Cotteral remanded the cause to the
state district court of Kingfsher coun-
ty for adjudication. The Peoples bank
was one of sixty-five state banks that
surrendered their state charters and
became national banks last March fol-
lowing an assessment against them of
per cent for the state guaranty fund.
The Peoples bank case served as a
test of the question whether the state
was attempting to take the property
without due process of law. When the
bank changed its charter, the organic
alton became liable for all the obliga-
tions then existing, and it followed the.
new bank was liable il the law was
valid. Judge Cotteral held that as the
supreme court of the United States
held that the Oklahoma guaranty law
is valid, federal question does not
exist.
Representatives of the banks affect
ed by the litigation will select a bank
to test the banking boards authority
before the state courts. 1t is alleged
in petitions filed that the assessment
is illegal, because it was not necessary,
since the banking board had assets
upon which to obtain all the money
needed that the per cent should
have been based upon the average
daily deposits for the year previous,
and not upon the statement Of March
7, 1911; also that the money was to
be used in bolstering weak banks.
whereas the law requires that 1t be
paid to depositors. The amount OF
the assessment being resisted is $780,
900.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20
COL. ROOSEVELT
R0MPs ON TAFT
Doubts the Sincerity of President Taft
Regarding the Presidential
Primary.

New York, March 19.-Col. Roose-
welt today issued statement in which
he discussed President Taft's speech
in Boston yesterday.
President Taft is reported as say
ing at Boston yesterday" he said,
that the voluntary primary power
as he calls it, the soap box primary
that is, a method adopted by the peo
pie as the only way in which to ex-
press their wishes when their legisla-
lures deny them any other option to
do so, is forse than nothing. But the
president continue dto say thai he
favored a preferential primary Cor the
presidency.
81 am exceedingly glad the presi-
dent has taken this ground and if his
campaign managers will sincerely
back him in the proposition we will be
able at once to get the presidential
preferential primary in Michigan, Hi
nois, Maryland, the District of Co.
lumbia and New York.
q earnestly hope that the president
and his supporters will, in other states,
support such legislation before it
passes and not after it passes"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20

The number Of freedmen excluded
from the rolls by reason Of the de-
cision in the Whitmire case is estimat-
ed at LOO Each of these freedmen,
if admitted, would be entitled to a
payment of $65120, amounting to ST.
197,000.00, which is the total amount
saved to the Indians by the action of
the supreme court in the Whitmire
case.
L the after-born children are sue
cessful in the Gritts case now pend
ing in the supreme court, the tribal
funds based upon the account as of
January 23rd, 1912, would be as fol-
lows: Total cash available $2,155,-
22975. Deducted from this amount re-
quired to equalize allotments of chill
dren, under the act of 1906, if the
Gritts case is decided in favor of the
children, S1,O39,172.0S Allotments,
1921, 1890 Making the total to be
deducted, O,364.5S. This would
leave balance on hand for per cap
ita payments and other expenses, of
$824,S65.17 To this should be added
about $125,0OOOO for unalloted lands,
and $25, 100000 from other sources, thus
making the total balance 1914, ,S65.17
The SIS per capita above referred
to will absorb $625, ,470.OO, if the after
born children are admitted and, there
fore, the balance left for distribution
would be $S49, ,395.17.
If the children are excluded there
should be added to the balance for dis
tribution the $1,O59,172.0S set aside
above to equalize allotments to the
children.
Eastern or Emigrant cherokees Were
Defrauded
All Eastern or Emigrant Cherokees
ought to know that they have been
Gefrauded out of their ancestors prop
erty rights by a decree SO unjustly
rendered against them in the Court of
Claims on April 29, 1907. Now steps
are being taken to get justice; that
is what we want and all we ask. We
are not asking the United States gov
ernment to give US anything, but what
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20
Church Has Nursery.

In order that mothers with babies
might be able to attend church, and
not be troubled with the infants, a
nursery has been established by the
First Methodist church at Vancouver,
Wash. A room in the basement is
used, and is equipped with toys for
the amusement of the children.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20
EvldentIy a plpIomat.

A courtier taking leave or Louis
XIV, who was sending him as an am
bassador to a foreign court, was told
by the king: "My most important in
struction for you is to pursue policy
entirely different from that of your
predecessor" sire" said the diplo-
matist, Il will endeavor to do so, that
your majesty may not repeat the ad-
vice to my successor"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20

time, don't know who It's, bur We
finds it good mans in this county We
got it good mans that taint been lect-
ed tall We find it some time soon
ri the morning. maby SO before sun
up, We git It name nounce in papers
pirty soon. Mr. Voter" wach it paper
you see 1t name before primary.
WATSII4A.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20
$2,O9S,619.2S
INKS 1OO,22S.7O
s2,1sS,S47.sS

$2,193, 3,S47 98
The government proposes to make
a distribution in the month of March
of $500 per capita, and if this dis
tribution is made it will require $685.
470.00.
The distribution would include the
full number of enrolled Indians, to-
wit, 36,096, and the full number of
after-born children, whose rights are
to be determined in the Gritts case, to-
wit, 1904. The $500 per capita will
be reserved unit 1.-The Gritts case is
decided.
The $500 distribution would, there
fore. be as follows:
SIS per capita to 36,096
enroEed ..o......,. $54l, 1900
$15 1er capita reserved for
after-born children ..y. 84,060U0
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20

In Elk VS.. Wilkins, the Court said:
AN Indian, born a member of one5
OF. the Indian tribes within the United
States, which still exists and is recog-
nized as tribe by the government of
the United States. who has voluntarily
separated himself from his tribe, and
taken up his residence among the
white citizens of state, but who has
not been naturalized, or taxed, or rec
ognized as a citizen, either by the
United States or by the state, is not
a citizen of the United States, within
the meaning of the Fourteenth Article
of Amendment of the Constitution.
Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U. S. "a, III.
The treaty of 1867 with the Kansas
Indian strikingly illustrates the princi-
pie that no one can become citizen
of a nation with out its consent and
directly contradicts the supposition
that member of an Indian tribe can
at will be alternately a citizen of the
United States and member of a
tribe. BY the Act of July Is, 1870,
Chap 296, 10, for instance, it was pro
yided that if at any time thereafter
any of the Winnebago Indians in the
State of Minnesota should desire to
become citizens Of the United States,
they should make application to the
District Court of the United States for
the District Of Minnesota, and in open
court make the same proof and take
the same oath of allegiance as is pro-
vided by law, for the naturalization
of aliens, and should also make proof
to the satisfaction Of the court that
they were sufficiently intelligent and
prudent to control their affairs and in
erests, that they had adopted the habits
of civilized life, and hal for at least
five years before been able to support
themselves and their families, and
thtreupon they should be declared by
the court to be citizens of the United
States, the declaration entered of rec
ord, and certificate thereof given to
the applicant; and the Secretary of the
Interior, upon presentation of that GER
tificate, might issue to them patents
in fee simple with power of alienation,
of the lands already held by them in
severalty, and might cause to be paid
to them their proportion of the money
and effects the tribe held in trust un-
der any treaty or law of the United
States; and thereupon such persons
should cease to be members of the
tribe, and the lands so patented to
them should be subject to levy, taxa
ton and sale in like manner with the
property of other citizens, 16. Stat.
361.
By the Act of March 3, 1873, ch.
1928, similar provision was made for
the naturalization of any adult mem
bers of the Miami tribe in Kansas, and
of their minor children. II Stat. 6S2.
In case of United States VS.. Os-
borne, 6 Sawyer 400, 4O9, Judge Deadly
in the District Court of the United
States for the District of oregon said:
But an Indian cannot make himself
citizen of the United States without
the consent and cooperation of the
Government. The fact that he has
abandoned his nomadic life or tribal
relations, and adopted the habits and
manners of civilized people, may be
good reason why he should be made a
citizen of the United States, but does
not of itself make him one. To be n
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20

citizen of the United States is po-
ltieal privilege whic hno one, not born
70, can assume without its consent in
some form.
Chirac V. Chirac, Wheat. 259.
Fellows V. Blacksmith, 19 How. 366.
United States v. Holiday, 1S Wall
4O7, 400.
United States Y. Joseph, 81 U. S.
GA, 61S.
Sec. 21l8 Of the Revised Statutes,
which was originally enacted June 90,
1884, declares that every person who
makes a settlement on any lands be-
longing, secured or granted BY treaty
with the United States to any Indian
tribe, or surveys or attempts to sur
vey said lands, or to designate any
of the boundaries by making tress o.
otherwise. is liable to penalty Of
100000.
SUSAN SANDERS.
university Iiotel, St Louis. Mo.
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grets that they were put to great ex-
pense and annoyance on account OF
the Incompetence or--of the So
called examiners.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20
Q ooo 90 Q oooooo oooooooo oooooooooooo
THE DEVIL A FISHING WOULD GO.
tBy sy. Nonymous)

remarkable thing has happened Of late.
And the facts in the viii try to state:
For it seems the Devil a fishing would CO.
And what better place than Bull Greek, you know.
But he fshed not for crawdads, bullheads bass;
He was after the leading professional ASS
If him he could catch, back Limbo he'd fly,
With joy in his heart, glare in his eye.
dereet parson already he'd caught
A higher critic who heresy taught;
" nile plenty of he had his string,
And aokegged lawyers who worked for the Ring
With Counclmen, too, and judges galore;
With some who talked pious and others who swore;
Some who had riches, and some who had not:
This is fact, and a bon mot
Yet all of these suckers" were useless Nick
Old Saw Bones he wanted; he his pick
So he baed his hook, and in his line.
And watched for his cork to bob along fine;
But the willy old Saw Bones up to that snuff"
And little for any such stuff
Till Satan, despairing, said I'll try again"
baited his hook with Votaire and Tom Paine
Now came such pull as asonished the Imp;
And the bank he flung queer shrimp"
An oddlookng fish the Devils last catch;
There nothing in heaven earth it would match
Stead of scales its body it its eyes,
And had wings on its head to the Devils surprise
It's head it peaked, indicating brains;
To describe the odd creature I'll take the pains.
But Darwin would say built a plan;
Given millions of years, twould turn into man.
And the Devil admired the remarkable fish,
And said, he strung it," 81 have my wish
I'll make it the second to the throne;
There's many sceptics can't reign alone.
A I'll give it, THE INFIDEL ASS,
Who for hatred of God, surpass
With me it shall reign and write for the press.
It'll libel the Bible; the saints twill distress;
For this is its forte in this twill delight
So good bye, Vinita, I'll take my flight
Then away flew the Devil to regions below
With the Infdel Ass in his clutches, you know
Good rddance to both. for Wen be blest,
And hope to enjoy long of
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-20
INDIAN FUNDS DUE
FROM GOVERNMENT
Statement of Funds of the Cherokee
Indians in Hands Of Government
February 9th, 1912.

Obtained from the office of the In
dian Department February 27th, 1912,
by Joseph W. Lewis.