Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 5, Ed. 1, Monday, December 15, 1884 Page: 2 of 10
ten pages : ill. ; page 16 x 11 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
IK tKIBIE TRANSPORTER
It the wly Paper publialiod within a
radiua of a hundrod mile
Sabscriptlon $1.00 Per Tear in Adyance.
Brand Advirtiumentt 5 Pir Year.
t3Br-Itato8 for Dlaplay Advertisement
mado known on application.
3I1NOII MENTION.
Broadcloth is losing its grip for
dress suits.
Tins country uses 650000 bushels of
wheat ouch day.
An English actor mimed Ciiimnoy is
said not to draw well lie is going to
be fired.
In the 'consumption of soap per
capita the United States leads. Italy
.is last on the list.
Four hundred thousand paper roses
decorate the stage of a Philadelphia
theater for a "roso scene."
The pauper population of England
exceeds by some 100000 souls tho en-
tire population of the great colony of
Now South Wales.
Mns. W. W. Astok recently paid
S25000 for a set of ebony and gold
furniture once in tho boudoir of the
ox-Empress Eugenie.
The vineyards around JH. Etna in
Sicily yielded this year an extraordi-
nary crop of grapes the wine from
which is of a superior quality.
General Fremont administered an
oath to his men when famine-stricken
on the Groat American Desert to die
rather than to commit cannibalism.
The people of Mew Hampshire seem
to have again rejected by a small ma-
jority the pioposition to hold a conven-
tion to revise tho constitution of the
.state.
A Veky brilliant light is obtained in
China from candlesonly of lato years
imported into Europo mado of wax
supplied by insoots specially roared
through Chinese ingenuity.
Eating a small piece of soap at
stated intorvals is recommended by a
Berlin physician as a better remedy
for dyspepsia and sour stomach than
soda magnesia or lime water.
The paragraphists are still harping
on tho Bartholdi pedestal. Thogcnoral
opinion among them seems to bo that
there is small dangov of Liberty's over
standing on tho pedestal to say noth-
ing of her harping on it.
TVIr. Winfield Scott of Abilono
'Tox. was a poor man ton years ago.
Now ho is president of a national bank
has sold this year $110000 worth of
'Cattlo and has still on his ranches cat-
. tlo valued at ovor $300000.
Geneual B. F. Butler is reported
to bo applying himself with unusual
earnestness to tho pursuit of his pro-
fession. Tho number of casos he un-
dortakos for poor porsons without
chargo is steadily increasing.
A DEEi1 cavo has boon found to exist
under the town of Blankston Iowa by
a farmer who was sinking an artesian
well. Three unsuccessful attempts
wore made to sink the well but each
time tho drill sank into the cave.
An English editor recently read in
an American paper that a train had
been thrown oil the track "by a broken
frog" whereupon lie sat down and
wrote a column article on tho pecu-
liarities of American frogs and toads.
Companies that insure tho lives of
children in England are becoming
enormously wealthy. After a few pay-
ments a large per centage of the poli-
cies are allowed to lapse and the com-
panies are called upon to meet very
few obligations.
The manufacture of watches and
clocks in Switzerland has of late suf-
fered so severely that many of the. fac-
tories have been indefinitely closed;
Geneva has lost twonty-fivo per cent
of its trado in this line within live
years.
A Chicago man wanted a divorce
becauso his wife persisted in singing
hymns. The court laughed at him
and ho would have lost his case had
not the lawyer summoued tho wife to
the witness stand and started her sins-
ing. At the fifth verse the court threw
up tho sponge and the divorco was
granted.
The signal oilicer on the summit of
Pike's Peak told a visitor tho highest
velocitv of tho wind ever recorded
there was 110 miles per hour when
the instruments broke and cordwood
began Hying down the mountain. The
guide added that forty-live miles per
hour would lift a mule out of the
trail.
In Paris is being established a fund
to provide pensions for physicians
when they reach the age of sixty. By
paying "a small yearly subscription"
physicians entitle themselves to an an-
nual allowance of 1200 francs on
reaching that age. Tho wives of phy-
sicians may also participate in the
benefits of tho societv.
The whales of the Pacific Ocean
says the Alia California seem to bo in
lovo with the Pacific coast and are
hugging it very closely from San Fran-
cisco to San Diego and are running
very near to land. Hundreds of these
seagoing animals which are warm-
blooded and not fishes are now within
the reach of hunters of that game.
An illustration of the way in which
a town may be completely blotted out
by a change in tho tide of traffic says
an exchange is shown in tho fato
which has overtaken Lisbon Ga.
which a few Years ago was at the head
of navigation on tho Savannah river.
It had thirty stores and did a flourish-
ing business. Now there is not a sin-
gle house left to mark the spot whore
tho old town stood.
Stammering as many sufferers have
found muv sometimes be got rid of in
a simple way. A correspondent writes
to the Boston Transcript: "I cured
myself of an annoying habit of stam-
mering by inhaling a deep breath be-
tween ovory few words and by novor
allowing myself to speak unless tho
lungs were fully inflated. A little
careful attention soon mado the prac-
tice a habit and now I never stammor
unless much excited."
Some of tho scientific papers are
publishing an item to tho effect that
wo are indebted to Pompeii for tho
canned fruit industry. It appears that
soon after tho excavations had com-
menced a party of Americans found
somo jars of preserved figs in the pan-
try of a lava covered house. Tho con-
tents wore found to be good and dur-
ing tho next year fruit canning was
introduced into tho Uuitod States
In Despair.
Montefarious Glover who some
time ago graduated from the medical
department of the Arkansaw Uni-
versity has forwarded to the trustees
the following letter:
'Gentlemen: Every able-bodied
man may in time learn to chop wood
or scrape tho spears of grass from the
tender cotton plant; he may in time
learn to shear a sheep or lend valuable
aid at a hog-killing but I do not
think that fate will take him by the
shoulders and shove him into success-
ful practice of medicine. The diploma
which you so generously gave me
please find herein enclosed. I have
handled it carefully and I think it is
quite as valuable now as it was when 1
received it from your hands. When I
came to this place and announced my
intention of devoting my energies to
the health of Swamp llange the peo-
ple extended to mo many congratula-
tory greetings and I had many rea-
sons for feeling proud that f had
clutched the flowing skirts of tho cura-
tive goddess; but now I am willing to
sell below cost my hand-saw and
carving-knife. I gave a hard-ware
man a dollar and six bits for the saw
and one dollar for the carving knife.
I will take seventy-five cents for the
lot. If you know of a student who
wants a iinc kit of tools please refer
him to mo.
"Perhaps I was too ambitious.
Doubtless I attempted to reap too
large a harvest with too small a sickle.
I have long known that medicine is
wearing tho short ru files of experi-
ment. Alas that I tried to adorn it
with a checked shirt and a pair of flax
breeches! Placidly I sat in my log
office awaiting my'first call. The sun-
light of promise streamed through the
holes in the roof and the dragon fly
dipped in gauzy gold buzzed against
the window-pane. The call came. 1
was summoned to attend tho bloody
bedside of a man who had been crush-
ed b a saw-log. The sufferer hear-
ing that I had been sent for died be-
fore I arrived. I keenly felt the in-
sult and was half tempted to cut off
his leg anyway; and would have done
so had I not forgotten my saw. Though
somewhat discouraged I resumed my
stool of patience. I soon received an-
other call. The dragon fly of gauzy
gold was not buzzing in vain. Buck-
ling on my Esculapian armor I
marched forth to attend a man
who had been suffocated while
cleaning out a well. I saw no
means of relieving him and in-
stead of allowing him to recover I went
to work on him and soon had him laid
out. The next evening I visited a man
who had chills. I noticed that he did
not shake enough. We all agree gen-
tlemen that it is proper for a man to
shako when he has a chill; we know
that when he fails to shake it is a bad
sign. Realizing -till this I slipped a
piece of ice down his back. He shook
he shook off the mortal coil. 1 then
saw that I had given him an overdose
of ico. Things went on in this way
until the wagon maker who mado ail
tho coffins for the neighborhood would
get out his lumber and go to work
every timo he saw me pass. He was
making money at my expense. I pro-
posed to levy a tax upon him declar-
ing that he should not expect me to
contribute so largely to his support
but he spoke roughly to me amf made
mo loiiir for a chance tonav him a nro-
fessional visit.
"I tried honestly to create a reform
within myself. 1 know that people
must be taking exceptions to my course
ana i decided to stop experimenting
and come down to the certainties of
practice. After this 1 lost but one
case. lie got out of bed and ran away
before I could got to him. This was
enough to disgust any one. When I
returned to my office I found that no
longer did the dragon fly buzz against
the window glass. A part of his tinsel
lay on tho floor and looking up 1 saw
that a spider had carried his burnished
head up among the rafters. Then I
sat down and reviewed my course. I
saw wherein I was unfitted to feel the
pulso of this life. I wiped my saw
and ran my knifo through the dead
ashes that lay like a soi od shroud in
tho fire-place.
"Alas young man tho medical pro-
fession is not open to us all. When I
was a boy I could skin a rabbit with-
out flinching; for this my father said
that I would mako a good surgeon. I
could look tranquilly on tho agonies
of a choked steer; for this my grand-
father said that I would make a good
doctor. I may eventually become an
apt hand with a brace and bit and may
learn to bore a comparatively correct
hole with an augur but tho hopes that
I once entertained are drawn by the
spider of fate up among tho rafters of
eternal disappointment. If you know
of a student who wants a fine kit of
tools please refer him to me. Ar-
kansaio Traveler.
tv
The Indians of Alaska.
A Southern Alaska Indian looks liko
his Arizona cousin and has his vices
but in other respects he is usually an
inferior article. Cunning workman
though he is fashioning curious and
well-carved houshold utensils out of
native woods and bone making nets
and baskets and silver bracelets and
rings for nose and fingers still the Pu-
eblo dweller distances him in manu-
facturing blankets dyeing wools carv-
ing stones and making silver orna-
ments and is generally a hausomer
cleaner braver and altogether moro
attractive man. An Apache mean-
est of southern Indians will light and
show spirit but an Alaskan never.
The far south native is a low-souled
tramp; an oily fish-eating supersti-
tious licentious creation; treacherous
and wilful. He is as stoical as though
carred.from wood; ho is without pride;
a bigamist; a sordid creature afraid
even of his wife whom ho always asks
to trade for him and always leaves
penniless and helpless. That is tho
Thinklets were generally a mean class
before they began to see the benefits
of the white man's civilization. As a
general thing it does not improve the
moral standing of Indians to have
white men come to live near them.
They copy but few of the virtues of tho
new-comers and are pretty sure to in-
dulge in most of their vices. When
Alaska was more forsaken than it is at
present the Indians did not get drunk
whenever the' could which they do
now; nor did ther sell their wives and
daughters to the highest bidder. But
they had other faults such as putting
inocent people to death because they
thought they had evil spirit; burning a
wife with her dead husband that both
might go to happy hunting grounds
together and other such pleasantries;
and while civilization has rendered
them more depraved in some things it
has on the other hand brought work to
them and offered a glimpse at least
of better modes of living of which
some have taken advantage.
There have been converts to Christi-
anity made here and there and a few
have moved into comfortable quarters
and very many have learned to woik
hard and to save a little money. One
notices the few advancements mado
with pleasure and only regrets that
there has not been more progress. If
Montesquieu was right in calling that
people happy whose annals are lire-
some Alaska Indians must have been
supremely contented. During the years
oi cnoir occupancy oi Alaska tney nave
done absolutely nothing towards devel-
oping the natural resources of their
posessions. Not only have they never
built any towns but they have neglect-
ed the timber overlooked the ores and
refused to cultivate the garden dis-
tricts. Whatever has been done up to
the present timo is due to the
white man. Beforo his advent a na-
tive was content to paddle about the
waters in his canoe and to livo upon
the fish and game which hunger com-
pelled him to catch. As an actuality
an Indian here is a badly housed oily
depraved and lazy being. As a possi-
bility he may bo made useful indevel--oping
under proper tutelage the vast
resources of the little understood but
undeniably rich Territory which wo
own. Alaska Letter in San Francisco
Chronicle
An Alfectcd Young Man.
A New York dude went to a cele-
brated doctor to l)o examined as his
health was on tho wane. Tho physi-
cian examined the young man care-
fully and said:
"1 find that your heart is affected."
"Anything else doctor?"
"Yes your lungs arc slightly af-
fected" J
"Anything olse about mo that is af-
fected." "Yos your manners are also af-
fected. " 2'cjjrts Siftinys.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Maffet, Geo. W. Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 5, Ed. 1, Monday, December 15, 1884, newspaper, December 15, 1884; Darlington, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc70596/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed May 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.