The A.H.T.A. Weekly News from St. Paul, Kansas • 4

INDIAN TERRITORY Three Years for a Dollar. As our ink slinger is still I will endeavor to scribble a few lines to our valuable sheet, the the W. N. Our lodge is still doing business at the same place. We meet firsthand 'THOU SHALT NOT STKAIi" third Friday night in each month.

We are gradually growing stronger. We taught one new member the mysteries of the A. H. T. A.

at our last meeting, and have two more for the next meeting. We have not had any officiai. papier of the national anti-Hobss Thikf Association Also of thk Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indian Territory Official Papkr or the Central Protective W.W. GRAVES, Editor. J.

W. WALL, Associate Editor. Subscription 50 cents per year, in advance. Advertising rates lo per word per Insertion. Strayed and stolen notices published free for those who are subscribers for the News.

able us to get out The News in the best possiblo manner with the best speed. This added to the fairly good office we had at the start makes a printing office that has cost more than $4,000. Still it is far from complete. The constitutions of the order should be in the hands of the members as soon as possible after the state meeting. This is even more true of the roster.

A roster is less valuable the older it gets and ought to be in the hands of the members as soon as made up. The News made the best record in the early date of getting out the rosters last year, but we want to do much better this year. Better equipment will do it. This will help the order as well as us, therefore this proposition is not a selfish one We would like to get $1,000 on this proposition before the 1st of October. Will you help us? W.

W. Graves. Until October 1, we will receive subscriptions to The News at the rate of $1 for three years. This does not mean we will send the paper to three persons for one year each but that it will bo sent for three years to the address of each member who sends us $1 before October 1, 1906. To any officer of the order who will send us five such subscriptions and $5 we will give a fine badge, something very nice and of a new design, as a premium.

We make this extraordinary offer in order to get some ready cash. We need a lot more machinery to facilitate the work of this office and we have decided on this method of getting the money with which to buy it. For nearly five years we have been spending all the spare money we made, not only out of The News but also out of our other paper and business affairs, in buying machinery and equipping our printing plant to en thing stolen from an Anti since we have been organized. There has been some stealing going on around Aim and Object of the A. H.

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A. are concisely stated in the following-preamble to the constitution 01 me asswmuuu, cifofo nrdor Innlnrtlner the dele gates representing the subordinate orders OI the "ANTI-ilORBK inuir ABnuumiiuii t.ji.n rrAKlfrMv and It.a InrlHclietion. In order to aid In the upholding of civil i m.in.,,n,fi,i oofotv nf nnr tlflODle. and the security of their property against Iosb by thieves, roDDers, iuuiuii grants, tramps, incendiaries and all viola r-- anri t.n aomiro ii und our lam in the country. Every horse has been recovered and most thieves locked up where they repent at their leisure.

Well Bro, Antis, always be on the watch and ready to act as an Anti should. Wherever and whenever there may be need. Always be diligent and ready to hunt the trail at any and all times if called on to do so. Success to all Antis and W. N.

T. G. Duqgan, F. S. No.

220, Gowen, I. T. If you will give a small space in your valuable paper, we will let Cookson lodge No. 23 be heard from inID Ul 1U TT CKUU WW uui" 7 -A. llles the enjoyment of life, and tne pursuit I noble little weekly friend and I am oi happiness in tne possessum ui um uuuvov rewards of labor with equal and Just rights to all, do proclaim the following constitution and the by-laws made under It to be the rules of government ior mo "Anu-numo Thief Association" of Indian Terri Dory and its Jurisdiction St.

Paul, Kansas, Aug, 16, 1906. R. B. Adams while driving1 to town once more. We have a membership one morning last week, met a big automobile, and the colt he wasdriv ine iumped clear over a barbed wire fence taking Mr.

Adams and the buererv with him. No damage was done except a slight scratch on the colts knee and some corn tramped down for Mr. Glentzer. The auto went by at full speed not stopping to of about 60 and have enough money in our treasury to run down and bring to justice no telling how many wrong doers. As our lodge is located 20 miles to the nearest Dept.

U. S. Marshal or telephone office, you can well infer that the citizens of this country or their property would be safe in this mountainous country without an 'organization of this kind; for.be fore there was a lodge at this place these mountains were a rendezvous for murderers, thieves, and whiskey peddlers, but our lodge see what damage they had done. Too many people who run automobiles are careless about scaring hor Aug. 3, and say, it was a cracker jack.

There were so many Antis here that it looked like a state meeting. Every lodge was represented within a radius of thirty miles. We had rather an odd program, but we carried it out to a letter. The first thing in the morning at 7:30 was a fox or hound race. A red fox was ed about seven miles, there was entered for the race fifteen of the fastest hounds in the Territory and Arkansas.

All the dogs were turned loose at the same time and the first two dogs across a certain line took the money. This race created great excitement among the lovers of fox-racing. This was followed by foot races, barrel races galore. At 12 o'clock we proceeded to eat up three barbecued beeves and all the spring chickens in this part of the country. At 1:30 all Antis met at our hall, where we formed in line and marched by two's to our picnic grounds.

This procession was headed by the marshal of our lodge; next came Deputy Marshals John Priest and Frank Long. After arriving at the. picnic grounds, we had singing by a choir of full blood Cherokees who rendered some as sweet music as the ear is wont to hear. This was followed by speeches both in the Cherokee and English languages. They said in ses and there should be a law to pre vent such criminal carelessness.

The above was clipped from the very glad of this blessed opportunity! Well Brother Antis we little fellows are located near the central part of the Chickasaw Nation, where everything is of the most graceful and pleasing nature to the five senses of the human family. Dougherty is our Santa Fe station and a thriving little city surrounded by those wonderful Ar buckle Mountains from whence every known mineral is found. We also have Rock Creek which glides along by our side, with all its beautiful trout, and which is fed by those wonderful and curative Sulphur Springs, which are only a few miles on our north, and where a part of all the world comes to enjoy themselves, and be cured of the several diseases of the human family. You brothers may say, that's the very kind of a place thieves stay, and in fact it is, but we Antis have lodges all over those jungles, and are wide awake. The thieves did quite a business last fall, but I guess they are disbanded now as there have been some passed out.

You brothers need not get -tired of this little letter, if the Weekly Bro. don't say anything, but if this letter don't get in the scrap basket the entire corresponding brotherhood is allO. K. I have been reading the Weekly News which was handed me by a Brother Anti. I like it so well, I am going to send for it along with this letter.

So good luck and success through life to the' Weekly and all A. T. A. brothers. W.

Price, cor. sec. Rock Creek, No. 240, Gilsonite, I.T. Thayer, News.

It is just such actions as that of the automobilist in this case that will cause a very stringent law to be passed and that has made it so hot for this class of humanity that they have gone to hunt a more congenial clime and we soon. Kansas has an automobile law now, but it appears to have a weak spot. If that automobilist was hope never to return. Our lodge has not been molested by thieving for a long time until last week a man by a stranger and dashed away without stopping to see what had happened, "there is no way of telling who to get the name of John Mathews stole a valuable span of mules from Squirrel the warrant for, and he is perhaps Petitt, a man who has been bedfast for the last five years, with rheumatism. One of the mules broke loose miles away before this can be found out.

The Antis of Ohio have been and came home next morning with a having this same kind of trouble and they are demanding the enactment piece of rope around its neck. There was a telephone message sent from of the following amendment to the part that every good man ought belong to the A. H. T. that this lodge taught love, friendship, truth, law in that state which looks good to Braggs, I.

T. to Muskogee, to Par-nell who belong to our lodge, to lookout for mule and thief. It was sobriety, charity, law and order and but a very short time until they had the mule, but the thief had traded the mule for a horse and received $10.00 and had flown, but by the aid of Muskogee and Ft. Gibson lodges and Dept. U.S.Marshals, they caught Mr.

Thief and landed him in Musko gee bastile, and it will be many moons before he steals any mules us and we think ought to be made part of the Kansas law: That each and every automobile or motorcycle be compelled to obtain from the Secretary of State a number, the figures of which shall be six inches long. Such number to be placed on the machine in a conspicuous place, and said number and owner's name to be recorded with the Secretary of State under penalty of imprisonment for such failure, and that each occupant of the machine is or the machine shall be held responsible for any or all damages. The News office needs $1000 worth of new machinery to properly do the work required of it and get out its work in good time. We are short the $1000 and we will not beg or borrow. We prefer to make a sacrifice in favor of our patrons.

Read our special offer in this issue. from anybody. As soon as we heard of the theft of the mules we called our lodge together and seleeted five the protection of life and property and everything that tends to the making of good citizens for the new coming state. At night we had a stomp dance by Cherokee Indians. This was something new and strange to several of our visitors.

We had the Grover Water's String band from Vian, I. which furnished us some beautiful music. Everybody went home Saturday morning saying that they had a good time and wanting to know when the Antis were going to give another picnic. W. C.

Davis, Sec. No. 23, Cookson, I. T. Helloo, who comes there? Rock Creek sub order No.

240, A.H.T. who wishes to give the Weekly News a friendly visit, and talk with the Anti boys. You see I have just enlisted in the Anti war, so it's fallen to my lot to correspond with that I wish to write a few words in regard to the women joining the lodge. I don't think you can find many women that want to join it, but I do think they ought to know the signs and pass words, for this reason: A brother might be on trail of a thief and probably he might stop to get his dinner, and I am satisfied if the lady knew he was a true Anti she would be safe to give him his dinner and probably give him some information. So that is the reason why I say a lady ought to know the signs and pass words.

It is not necessary for a lady to go to the lodge, but I do think it would be well enough for men to follow the thief to the jumping off place or catch him, but they did not go far until they received news that he was caught. We have a committee out after a man who borrowed a saddle a few days. He kept it a few months and then sold it. We have the saddle and man located and expect to land them. her to know the signs and pass words.

We advertised that we would have The News for 156 weeks for $1. Read our special offer in this issue. A lady don't want to leave the child an A. H. T.

A. Barbecue and picnic I.