Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • 9

MUSKOGEE TIMES-DEMOCRAT Volume No 22 MUSKOGEE OKLA SATURDAY JAN 25 19 19 Creek Council House to Pass From Tribe to Okmulgee City HOW SNAP-SHOT OF LOCAL CANTEEN WORKERS RAISED $10000 FOR RED CROSS 4 x'Xv HiS $10 Bought the Cart Then Picture of It Brought $10000 in Southern Town Alabama Traveling Salesman Put Up the Ten Then Brings Back the Story capitol of the Crook Indian Nation which it to told to tho city of Okmulgoa for $100000 In this building all of tho executive logialativo and judical acto of tho officials of tho Crook Nation war porformod Tho execu-ton troo undor which convictod criminals were shot is shown at tho left of the picture in with tho comer of the building Tha council house was built in 1878 War Experience Teaches Muskogee How to Solve Its Problems of Peace County Commissioners Have Mind Gravelled Road From Ft Gibson to County Line Would Connect With Okmulgee County Hard Road Southwest of Boynton The county commissioners of Mus- kogee county have in mind a plan1 which they hope to put through this year regardless of what is done by the Mate or the government In the matter of road building which means a grav-eled surface road from Fort Gibson I through Muskogee to the west county! line at a point flva milee southwest ofj I Boynton I Okmulgee county is proceeding with Its rood building program and a con- 1 tract has been let for a hard surfaced I road which will touch the Muskogee county line at the point mentioned southwest of Boynton and run into Ok-i mulgee When these roads are com pleted it will give a hard surfaced road 'from Ft Gibson to Okmulgee a dis-1 tance of 50 miles The county commissioners are going 'to proceed immediately with the graveled road west of town This will gradually be extended west as fast as conditions and finances will permit The condition of the road between Muskogee and the Arkansas river bridge east of town during the past season of bad weather has convinced the commissioners that this road also must be graveled as it has been practically Impassable In places for several weeks A plan is also In embryo to extend the graveled road from the bridge to Ft Gibeon and the land owners on that side of the river it is understood are ready and willing to give substantial help to constructing such a road Work will continue on the extension of the graveled surfacing of the West Okmulgee road on the same plan that several miles have already been built This will be carried forward Just as fast as the county finances and conditions will permit The plan now is to make this a through road connecting with the one Okmulgee county haa contracted to build It will take some time to work this out and In the meantime state and federal aid may be secured that will materially hasten its construction This road would run two miles north and three miles east from the Okmulgee county lino to Boynton From that point it wilt run north to connect with the road running due west from Muskogee and thence east into thh city This will bring the road to a point within stx miles of Haekell and plans are also under way that would provide for the improvement of the road from Haskell to the main east 1 and west road so that the oil fields and the two moat Important towns in the west side of the county would get the benefit of all this road improvement Of course this is lot of road work and it will take time and money to complete it but Commissioners Har-rower and Cole are confident that it can be worked out and this plan is independent of any state or federal aid in the way of hard surface roads PLAN IS VITAL Pooh! Pooh! for Pink Tea Miami Women Will Work for Community Betterment 19FTVICT0RV GARDEN TRAIN Muskogee's Getting Started Al- ready to Raise Her Vic-: tory Gardens Okmulgee Votes Tuesday on $100000 Bonds to Purchase Honse From Tribe Creek Capitol Building ast of Tribal Property i Now Remaining BT CHARLES I O'NEILL Okmulsreo Jan 'The End of Nation" might well te choeen a a de- 1 acrlptlve title for an hlatorlc Incident which will take place In Okmulgee on or about February 1 when the title! to the alte and building of the Okmulgee council houee the former capitol of the Creek Indian nnttlon will te trana- ferred by the chicm and officials of the Creek tribe to the city of Okmulgee The Creek capitol building erect ed in 1878 and one of the moat his- torlc buildings went of the Miaeieelppi rtver is to be purchased by the city for a consideration of $100000 That Is the value a' which the building Is appraised by the bureau of Indian af- fairs of the United States department of the interior The present actual valwe of the site which is in the cen-1 ter of the city is eetlinated at $200-000 Lest Tribal Property The council house is the last public building of any kind in which historic events in the life of the Creek nation were enacted which 'still remains the property of the Creek trfbe When the deed transferring the council house to the city of Okmulgee is signed the Creeks will have relinquished title to all of the material property which they held as a nation The burial grounds of their dead and the memories of their national greatness will elapse before the tribal affairs of the Creek are finally settled up uuder the direction of the United States government The Creeks themselves are by no means a vanishing race The full bloods however are dwindling In numbers and the melting pot of Oklahoma and the southwest will soon mold the Creeks into the sturdy race of Americans which is developing the resources of the state But the tribe as a nation may be said to have accomplished its last official act when the sale of the council house is completed Bond Election TuesCay The city of Okmulgee is to raise the fund for the purchase of the council house by a special bond issue which is to be approved at a special election to be hold In the city on next Tuesday January 28 The sentiment In fax or of the purchase of the site is practically unanimous and there is no duubt of the bonds being approved The purchase by the city was provided for in the supplementary treaty made by the government with the Creeks in 1902 and the clause providing for the purchase was put in the treaty by General Pleasant Porter former chief of the r'reeks and one of the great leaders of the Creek nation The city of Okmulgee has not definitely determined Just wnat use will be made of the council house but there is a strong movement on foot to convert it into a historical museum which will serve as a monument to the nation whose capitol it was Erected in 1878 The council house was erected by the Creeks In 1878 nine years after the Creeks had adopted a written constitution for the government of their people Prexlous to the erection of the council house a large log house stood on a site near the site of the present council house Within the iwalls of the council house all of the executive Judicial and legislative acts of a nation which owned five million acres of rich land and whose people numbered thousands were performed from 1878 until 1900 when the last meeting of the Creek council was held The proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt which admitted Oklahoma to the sisterhood of states of the union put an end to the tribal government of the Creeks Since 1908 the government of the Creeks has been carried on by the state and nation although the tribe still has a chief and the tribesmen are still called toguther at Intervals to disensa matters that affect the welfare of the tribe All of the outstanding events in the history of the Creek nation took place in and around the council house The annual meeting of the lYeek counril was held In the building The council consisted of an upper and lower honse called the house of kings and the house of warriors The nation was divided into 48 clans and each had one representative in the house of kings Vnd two representatives In the house at warriors The chief of the tribe was the presiding officer of the council and the second chief held a position similar to that of the vice president of a republic There were other tribal officers such as Judges an auditor and a treasurer The chief was elected by the people for a term of four years During the time that the council house served as the capitol of the nation but seven men were raised to the rank of chief The last was Moty Tiger The present chief of the Creeks is Captain George Grayson of Eufauia who was appointed about two years ago by President Woodrow Wilson to succeed Moty Tiger Chief Impeached There The second impeachment proceedings ever brought in the United States to dispose a high executive official were brought in the counoll house when Chief Lochous Harjo was impeached tried before the house of kings and dismissed from office His Impeachment which was the result of a political feud between the North and the South Creeks was the first act of the council which assembled at the mil of Chief Harjo TMard Couchman second chief assumed the mantle of Harjo when the latter was deposed Harjo was a north Creek and Couch-man was a south Creek When the elections were held to choose a successor to Chief Sam Ohecote who died fin 1883 Harjo and ouchman united tforces and were eleeted as ehief and second chief The South Creeks xxlio had a majority in the council dee Id Continued on PB Two-B A surprising story of how a picture of Muskopee canteon wortiors was the big factor in the Red Cross campaign In a southern community and was directly responsible for raising $10000 of needed funds has just come to tight here More than a year ago when Alice Robertson and a few other Muskogee women were opening up the first Red Cross Canteen in the state traveling salesman (by the name of Robert Alien who sells to the Atlas Supply company of this city heard of the tplendid efforts of these Muskogee women and wishing (to help them in their work wrote out a check for $10 and sent tt to 'Miss Robertson to be used in whatever way she comiderel best They Needed a Cart At that time the women were obliged to carry the big coffee pots the fruit baskets and sandwich Boxes the length of the trains in order to see that every soldier then enroute to camp was given something to eat to cheei him on his way Off times several trips hack and forth to the old car then be ing used as the canteen kitchen had to he made and the pots and boskets sometimes proved mighty heavy before every one of patrtotls wore fed It seemed as though the necessary equipment at that time as a little cart in which to haul the thing back and forth So such a little red eirt was purchased with tne ten dollars which Mr Allen donated One day sometime later a kodak WHS being flashed around the canteen and it caught Miss Robertson and Mrs Henjanan Mossman besides the little red cart which had Just been hauting the apples candy and coffee to a train-load of soldiers which had just parttedi through the city The cart was such a help to the canteen workers that print of the picture was sent to Mr Allen to acquaint him with the manner in which his money bad been expended The Reappears Time went on and nothing was heard of the traveling salesman of the latter being forgotten by the Muskogee workers However the picture had been doing a patriotic act On day a couple of weeks ago Mias Robertson was feeding some boys as usual down at the station when a mm came hurrying to catch the train on second Iook Miss Robertson dis-eovered him to be none other than nmnTh B' AUJn whose Patriotic act months ago had saved the canteen workers many a tired arm His Story There were only a few minutes to WhTchUirf'e hDW the -shot iris-' Robertson had sent him andbTVne mPans 0f ra'sin hous-ands of dollars for the American Red omh rampajgn was on In the xouih and four minute talks were 'e-ing made In many theaters As a kh natures of the public film plctures of the snap-shot of Miss Robertson Mrs mXth th "Ue red were hMe were own in the here nZherKthe four-mlnut talks ere made The story 0f the great and patriotic work the Mustowee W(re was told in nJ anI he effect 11 bad upin the people was extraordinary No less thill ten thousands of dnl-hirs were collected just through the mrans of that picture' concluded Mr Allen ns he Jumped aboard the mov- irier iMr borne is An Aa hut wh ther or not the pic Jon lrnn hat or Tne other ii hern citv Miss Roh- I no Know she didn't 1 inf to inq PROMINENT BALD HILL MAN AND WIFE IN DIVORCE SUIT rikriu'irep 1 1 j- hrn vinu pn-nrressf-ii prnr -omri'inri lvnr It IVrquson a known rrnnt of -ho Raid Hill oi i Kmma Ker- C'ion nr reared in Vriot conn hore dote-romo thr-ish OMt thoir marital affare vo vatSfaotion of at least on of -In -a-- Tho district court the -nit for nhsoluto ditr i nd ii-ioru Mod hv Mrs Forprus lu Ice 1 Hozarth is hoarintt the n-o Tarter appears for the hnsha-id and Jlnrnor is attornPN Mrs IVrx'i-son The plaintiff hasep her plea for di-rorce on allegation of extreme rrueltv during the ra xear and also charge that her huhmd ha been Intimate with ore Bet tv pledge The lat-tr- who si to mother of four children is expected to teslifx In hehV' of Mr Ferguson The Ferguson's both of whom a-e pnf fin venrs of age ere married in Hri'I and have no chiMren The couple own tnlntiv 40 acreq of land and other property and the wife wants the property divided between the two if a decree Is granted The parties In the suit are both well known in the eairtem part of coun-tv and manv spectators are attending the trial of the rase it is alleged that Mrs pergaison has started divorce proceedings on three previous occasions but the trooblos of the cotiple have always been adjusted In past before a court judgment waa obtained GROSS PRODUCTION TAX BILL FOSTERED BY NEFF fiklfthoma Citv Jan 25 (Special I Neff of Muskogee introduced bill I in the house which would affect the gross production tax on minerals 1 nip extent Explained by tho authoi I it only pluvs tho tajc on lead and zinc on same basis as that on il -ni sraa which three per on)A it Eicholtz Chamber of Commerce President Sees Promise of Good Days War Methods Applied to Peace Will Bring Great Results you know that individually and collectively the business men of Muskogee still maintain a demeanor which seems to ask the question which is being propounded by thousands of American cities: 'After the war then said Eicholtz president of the chamber of commerce In commenting on the effort to divert that organization toi its active poet-war duties that I do not mean to cast a said Mr Eicholtz but merely to submit the argument that many of us are as yet waiting for some indefinably intangible phenomena to drop down into our midst and re-ad-Just our house to the changed conditions which have been wrought by the sudden transition from a war to a peace basis We are still asking ourselves the question: the war then what? We have not yet realized that more than two months have elapsed since the cessation of hostilities and that we are now fairly started on the new year 1919 Busy in War Work work of our commercial organization was largely confined last year to the promotion of all agencies having to do with the national program of furthering our and the world interest in the great war and but for effectiveness and unity of this body Muskogee would not have been i able to enjoy Its unique position today of having carried every quota well over the top Tie fact that we were thus almost exclusively engaged has led some to criticise the organization and accuse it of being unfruitful in handling the commercial problems which constantly beset our growing city But oil of this is now past history we have effaced our war program and entered upon the activities which should make for a bigger and better city in all of its phases are many lessons which we have learned from the war and our participation in its work which should become a beacon light for our future guidance chief of which is that we have demonstrated what may be accomplished by team work when we have established definite objectives It is an easy matter to fix a certain goal for our accomplishment but our trouble Is that we grow tired before our objective is attained This may be smack of stuff but we nil know that it Is true in human experience Some of Lestona the great whirlpool of the war caught the United States in its vortex there were many business men who thought they were going to be put out of business right here in Muskogee but that belief last longer than the thought There were problems many of them they were all solved just as soon as the belief was I established that they must be and could be solved Some of us said that prices could not be increased but near-t ly all of us Increased then because we had to Other of us said the overhead could not be reduced but it was reduced The result was that Muskogee had the largest volume of business last year that it has ever had and that without any government contracts to fill a privilege enjoyed by many cities while others furnished facilities for great army cantonments and other projects thereby fattening their batting average in business referring to the lessons of the past four years of war I will say that every business and every department of business In Muskogee Is doing some one or more things better and easier than were done in 1914 and which we would have then said could not be Lessons Make Pink Teas popular in Rich Little Oklahoma City Women Organize Auxiliary to Chamber of Commerce and Are Working at It Miami Jan 25 (Special) Although' I the war is ended and women are be- 1 ing relieved of the strenuous lied Cross and other war work Miami women will not return to the life of card parties 'and pink teas in the spint in which they etrd into such pleasure before the war brought its many lessons Instead they are entering whole-heartedly tho off wer-mj-o the board tutn-n an 1 -law These women are work and th- ill pi thing ts up uppir mJr nm ipf hr 1 A -lit-' ot rs earn 1 it this U' -1 Hi ll All aboard for the garden It starts Monday with Karl Smith city commissioner of streets and alleys acting as conductor It is proposed to have this train carry approximately 1500 persons in Muskogee to the of lower living through the citiee of and The first plan Is to educate the people of the citv in how and when they formed It will strive for an efficient 'should plant a garden how they should municipal government paed streets the how should sow better sanitary conditions and all other modern impro w'htch will go toward placing iami prominently upon the map of the United Stutes At tins first mooting Mrs waa chosen president Mrs Gooigo Web-tr vice pr sidnt Mr second vice pre-dnt Mrs i ff secretary Mrs 1'ver tr isur ui inn-s Wright Ut Is A son it II I'lrv i it it( tu li an 1 the Into a moement which will treif with the civic conditions the ment anl welfare of their own home town They will devote much time to charity and chanty begins at home During the first part of January a mass meeting of the women of Miami I was called and a woman's auxiliary to the Miami chamber of commerce was III I I I I 1 1 lJ i the seed and how they should cultl III III II I 1 1 1 ft II I 1 1 1 that which they have sown Then it 1 IIIUIUII IflLilljig planned to let them know when to plow when to sow and when to culti-- vate A Good War Record Iatt year the city of Muskogee through Commissioner Smith acting upon a request of the Tirnes-Democr it had citv teams and employees plow for Muskogeeans more than 700 garden spots Some of the plowed we i quite a bit more thin spds they wp The big item of interest to all deal- i Jicrw This year Commissioner Smith ers along Auto Row Just now is the has stated that he intends to see thit state program of road building There those who are unable to pay for hav- plow ground they PUHING SOLDIER IN RIGHT JOB IS VITALPROBLEM Libraries and Employment Service Trying to Solve Problem by Education How to put the discharged soldier In lino with the right job is one of the biggest problems of the day Many of the returning soldiers will be disabled so that they will not be able to return to tholr old work- The man was a bookkeeper and has lost the use of his hands will not be able to write any more the man who has lost of his legs will not be able to take a job in which he will have to get about The problem will be: shall he The man who did not get to go across but remained In camp will have the same problem presented to himself In a different way In work in the cantonement he has come across new conditions that have led him to be interested In other things Signal corps men were told to learn telegraphy so were the soldiers In the machine gun companies Engineering battalions opened up new fields for the drafted soldier This led him away from his own line of work and put him in touch with something that might pay him better if he studied up on it Library Workers Helped The American Library association tried to help solve the soldier's problem Miss Sarah Noble Muskogee librarian pointed out While in tho service the soldier was given hooka on his particular vocational interest by the a-snociation The camp libraries supplied the soldier with the material that he wanted To create a keener interest among tho soldiers for study in a particular subject that ho was the least bit interested in the association supplied him with lists of books that he could get at the camp libraries In this way the soldier was made conscious of hig chance for de-v elopment In camps and hospitals these lists were displayed in racks placed in recreational buildings and in various centers where men congregated Tho association aimed to reach every man in camp no matter how short his stay with the vocational list tn which he would be interested Even though he did not find the book listed on his especial subject the plan was to give him the idea that the library was the place to get posted on tho home job Posters and placards lantern elides in moving picture shows brief talks by the camp librarian or some other American Librarian association representative before lecture audiences and In theaters and various other advertising mediums were employed to back up the idea that the soldier is returning said Miss Noble association is still helping him out by sending these lists of books to every library in the country and trying to get them to get some of these books for the soldier when he gets back home The United States employment service is co-operating with the public libraries in educating the soldier who has returned to civil life to use these books to determine what his work should be this continued Miss Noble library is doing what it can to help the returning soldier make the right connections between himself and the job he is best fitted for Thus the book that the soldier read while In the service on nnv particular line of work will be waiting for him in the library wbn he Miss Noble has just sent for many new books on vocational subjects proenients They by mu men and Wt are going to stick bark them in such ing garden pots plowed get tho plowing on-no He will have the citv do tills but he does not intend to have tro citv plow gardens for those who are in a poMt-nn to piv fur tn at yin men across the water who were icing death- not only di-ath fror lets from Hun guns but starvation If th people hack hom ed to send ross to them t-xxl precious article could onl be rai this country In sufficient quant i keep those boys at their -uns every Muskopeean was perfectly inff to don his biff sun hat take a hoe in his hand and put in the spare hour ffiven him in the afternoon bv the sotting ba of the clock under ffovern-nient orders mikinff a ffarden spot He was willing to be a gardener and proud of the fact A Big Peace Need Now that the actual fighting insofar as the greit Arri'ncan aims is concerned li ceased wuth the exception i a little conflict with the Russian bolsheviki the need for food is just -even greater America still has tin immense army across the wate-rs So have the allies but the hie food problem does not rest wdtn feedme the soldiers but it is the food coming: from to feed millions of women and children now facing starvation tn those sections of ouuntry which have been liberated from the hands of the America! Th)s country is looked upon as the saviour of nations anil now those subjects of saved nations are stretching their hands towards Amer- tr and tho United Staton in that conflict Muskoge i not a dealer in this or anv other city in the state that is not thoroughly cognizant of the fact that if the state spends fifty million dollars on hmldtng roads within the next five years tbrt number of ears sold will increase sev- i eral hundred percent Good road roads that can be traveled 365 day in the year regardless of weather would put the automobile business on an entirely different basis Now cars are sold for business and pleasure The man who buys a car for business purposes buvs1 it because he cannot get along without it and fully aware that there will be times when it will he Impossible to' use It except on paved streets The per-son who buys a car for pleasure solelv is ateo thoroughly aware that he is taking on an expense that will not net returns even In pleasure a considerable part of the year because the present conditions of roads restrict the use of ithe car to paved streets a considerable 'portion of the time and the car cannot be of seivtee except in the citv and most cars that are bought for plenum are expected to run a great deal in the I country I When the state is oovered with a network of hard surfaced roads that can be used any day or night In the year regardless of the weather then i there will be no such thing as a i ref car A car of some kind will become a necessity to everyone and they I will be regarded as a necessary expense i I just the same os rent taxes light or I heat Nobody will undertake to get along without one It may be a cheap car or a high-priced one hut evervone will have to have a car This means a' tremendous volume of business of course not only to the car salesmen I but to tire and accessory men as well I It Is needless to say that every can dealer is an enthusiast for the Robert-1 son road plan and they do not care very much about what the plan is so It oalls for road building immediately and is so framed that it will be in no dang- er of failure of endorsement by the people who vote on it 1 In addition to pived Mrrots these women intend to that the city is leaned up that th so-hools and the lares of public amusements are made more jmnitarv and as a starter towards Mich an end the citv will undergo thorough cleaning one iv earlv thi -pr'nff whn alles bukards aid st a rt' ndth-d tho'-o pi ti om hi-'h i nd to disgrtre tho phjsieul apar-am of a town Want Better Lights Miami is said to be one of the poorest lighted towns in the entire country and et in comparison with other titles of its se it is one of tin- richest These industrious women have announced that they are out for a better lighting system of the town Schools will come in for their share I of rooonTtruction A committee will be 'appointed to investigate and study all educational questions and at the next election tho auxiliary expects to announce a woman a candidate for a lea for food I fthe people of the lib-'member of the school board and they erated nations now die from starva- expect to pet out and cajnpaign and tion there has been ni victory in lib-i see that she is elected them from the hands of their At present there are several charlt-captors abb organizations in the citv It is Muskogee Gets Ready the purp4-e of the auxiliary to tik- Muskogee is going answt-r her part ovt all of these jssnriaiions and foim of that cry Already a number of per an associated charities with one head Continued'on "pge3 -Bj Continued on Page Tw-a done The conditions all of us have mot to a greater or less degree will Continued on page 3-B.