The Fort Gibson Post from Fort Gibson, Oklahoma • Page 4

The Dost. 0 Published every Saturday at the proposed Capital of the new state to be made of the Indian Territory, and guarantees the largest bona Ado circulation of any Indian Torritory newspapers. WILL T. CANUP, EDITOR. TERNS--IN ADVANCE: One copy one 01,00.

One six 500. One copy three 800. Address remittances all communicatione and POST. make We al to will not be responsible for money pald on advertising or subscriptions to persons unauthorized to receipt for same. Correspondence containing news of Interost desired from all parts of the Indian Torritory.

Advertising rates mado known on application to this office. An FORT GIBSON, APRIL 32, 1898. THE Curtis bill will pass the scnate like a government $10 bill when it is reached. A WORD to the wise is suflicient. Come to Fort Gibson and secure your lots before the rush begine.

No one who has ever seen Fort Gibson's great natural advantages will deny that there is a great future before her. Prairie towns without water. ber or good land will not prove draw. ing cards hereafter to people who come to the Territory to locate. Non-citizens, in or out of the Indian Territory, may now conduct business in Fort Gibson.

Come now and get located on a desirable lot in the best townsite in the West. THE Fort Gibson Board of Trade should put on its war pants now and begin fighting for the town. Little boomlets are beginning to strike us, and a big, substantial boom is not far distant. ABUNDANCE of pure water, a mild heathful climate, rich land, wood, coal and all kinds of building are a few of the inducements Fort Gibson offers to those who are looking for a location in the Beautiful Indian Territory, the garden spot of the world. EvENTS during the past two weeks have been very favorable to Fort Gibson.

A petition to incorporate under the statutes of Arkansas has been tiled with Judge Springer, which will be argued and no doubt granted on the 20th of next month. The Curtis bill has passed the lower branch of Congress and will undoubtedly pass the Senate by the time the town perfects her organization as a municipality. Then the rush will begin to one of the finest and most desirable townsites on earth. THE last of next month it will be in order for the citizens of Fort Gib son to put in nomination men. to fill the municipal offices of the proposed new incorporated town.

This hurst election should result in the selection of good, suitable men for the various offices. The mayor sbould be a man who believes in the future of Fort Gibson and who will be untiring in his devotion and efforts to make the town what the Creator intended it to be -a great city. Don't nominate or elect a man who doesn't care whether the town thrives or dies SO long as his own interests are subserved. Don't nominate or elect a pull-back, a moss-back or a draw- -back, but nominate and elect a man who is enthusiastic over our great natural advantages for a city and who is progressive, go-ahead. and energetic- who has no axes to grind except for the town and who will give special favors to no one and justice to all.

This is the sort of man Fort Gibson wants for mayor. A recent ruling in the United States court knocks out Cherokee law which was enacted to prevent the employment of non-citizen labor in the Cherokee Nation. Agent Wisdom writes to Treasurer Lipe as follow: You are therefore notified that you are authorized to grant a permit or licesse to trade In the Cherokee intion to any person, whether citizen or who may apply therefor and you will keep due record of the same according to the Cherokee laws and you will issue a copy of such license or permit to the party 80 authorized to trade and you will notify him that in addition to said permit obtained from you he will be required to obtain license through this agency from the United States according: to the terms set out in said section 2128 heretofore recited and you will issue said license to said trader in duplicate -one for his use and one to be transmitted to this office either by you or by the trader." The map of Fort Gibson, made by the Fort Smith Engineering who have been here for some time, was pronounced by Judge Springer the best ever presented to him. The map was made by the company's topographer, Mr. H.

J. Collins, who is certainly an artist in his line. Mr. Collins formerly practiced law at his home in Roscobel, and is a genial young gentleman who makes friends wherever he goes. STATEMENT OF FACTS.

Concerning the Whereabouts of Col. Wm. P. Boudinot. Col.

W. P. Boudinot went from Fort Gibson on 13th of March with F. J. Boudinot, his son, to Kansas City for the purpose of taking treatment for the morphine addiction.

The next heard of him was by letter written from East St. Louis, Ill. to his son, Frank Boudinot, in which he said he was not satisfied with the method pursued at the institution at Kansas City, and that he was going somewhere else--that he would return when cured and not before. He also promised to write to his son again soon, That letter was dated the 15th of March, 1898. The next, and last, heard from Col.

Boudinot was a letter to Frank Boudinot, mailed at Chicago, on April 8th, 1898, saying that he was not doing so well, that his abseuce would be for indefinite time, and asking his son to so state to the curious. Not liking the tenor of the letter Frank Boudinot went to Chicago to the hotel where Col. Boudinot wrote he had been stopping for for some time. He was not known at the hotel at all, neither could he be located in the That is the extent of the knowledge his son has of him at the present time, and he asked THE PosT to so state for the information of those who, from curiosity or other motives. would ask questions.

MULDROW ITEMS. An Interesting Budget of News From a Special Reporter. Special Reportto The Post. MULDROW, April S. Hart, for several years station agent at this place, has been superceded by R.

A. Blakely, recently of Palarm, Ark. Mr. Hart has made one of the best agents ever stationed at this place, and has friends among all classes. The Press is making a manly effort to wake up the city authorities and the people of Muldrow generally', to make improvements in the way of side-walks, drainage, etc.

The condition of any town shows about the character of its people. P.ople who liye near some of the mudholes should have pride enough to drain them. Good for the Press. A hunting party, including Abe flassett, and some of the principal candidates for office at the late electiou, started in two wagons for a hunting and fishing. frolic in the Brushy mountains, last Saturday.

"Peace reigns in Warsaw, 'but Uncle Gibson says there is "something rotton in Jack Ellis, a Cherokee, has com-. menced suit in the U. S. court to obtain possession of Gov. Watts' place at Paw Paw.

Gov. says com Pay me and you can take the place. It appears that the matter of prosecuting the recent election fraud at this place has been abandoned, but not forgotton. Chicanery and ras. cality don't always win, Will Blackard will soon he located in his new drug store, which is one of the finest fitted in these parts.

Marion Mabray is putting up A new two story store. building 20x40 feet on the ground. B. Jenkins has been confined to his house for the past week. The Turnham stone building begine to loom up, work being above the second story windows.

It has frontage of 43 feet, and will be, the finest building on this line between Fort Smith and Wagoner. G. M. Nichols, one of the Watts family has given up his, place for which he got pay, and is going to Oklahoma. Marvin Byrd is talking of putting in a harness shop.

Jim Payne is running a temperance saloon. Fine rain on Monday. FIVE TRIBES IN CONGRESS. (Continued From First Page.) appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. The other claims included in the bill are: The Mississippi Choctaws; the Freedmen of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nation; the white intermarried citizens of the Chickasaw, Choctaw and Cherokee nations; the Chickasaws and Seminoles for arrears of interest; the Seminoles and Creeks for property of loyal citizens, destroyed during the war; and some other claims of minor importance.

The present status of the bill is: a favorable report was authorized by the House committee, but the report was withheld, until the disposition of the Curtis bill. It will doubtless be taken up and pressed to passage now, without delay. LATER -April 20. -The Curtis bill has gone to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. An.

early con. sideration of it is promised. I today called on Senator Jones, to get some general expressions in re. gard to it, for the people of the Indian. Territory.

Those who know the relation of Senator Jones to Indian Territory legislation, and the position he occupies in the Senate, can fully appreciate the force of what, he say's. He said: "The bill will be considered just as soon as the committee can reach it. I have not polled the Senate or the committee, and would not like to predict what Indian legislation will pass. 1 can state what I am in favor of. I favor the ment and re-submission of the Senator Platt is known to prefer that all ludian legislation be based Oil treaties.

With Senator Platt passively, and Senator Jones actively, for the treaties; and Senator Pettigrew willing to agree to anything that will secure an abolition of the tribal governments, and the allotment of the Indian lands, the prob)labilities of the -submission of the: treaties are of no means remote. The Cobb House, the leading hotel of Vinita, has recently changed hands, Mr. Jacob Arter, all experienced hotel man of Coffeyville. being now in charge. ME Benefit Yourself By Buying Pure Drugs and Medicines R.

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Wilson's splendid turnouts going to Tahlequah. OHN F. WILSON, the veteran Tablequah liveryman, nOw towns and conduct a splendidly equipped stable at both ends of the line, and runs the old reliable Fort Gibson and Tablequah Mail Hack Line. When you ride, ride with WILSON. 1 WILL A WEAR Shock a DIAMONDS.

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