The Indian Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 20, Ed. 1, Thursday, January 13, 1898 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 26 x 20 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
ea
THE INDIAN
CfflEFTAIN.
CHIEFTAIN PUBLISHING CO.
VINITA INDIAN TERRITORY THURSDAY JANUARY 13 1898.
VOL. XVI. NO 20
BI3iBEsE
HDPi w
Through Invoicing
And Npw...
Ready for Business!
In order to make room for my immense Spring-
Stock I will for the NEXT TWO WEEKS offer
bargains in my entire line of
SDr 3oofcs
Date
JSoots Sboee
Giotbtng.
Special attention called to one lot of Ladies' and
Gents' Shoes which will iro at
One Half
The Original Cost.
Clothing and All Millinery Goods at Cost!
Special Offer in Blankets and Comforts!
Hoods and Fascinators Must Go!
These Goods Are flll'Neu).
No 5beIfWoPD Stock.
Up-to-Date Line
of Groceries.
Just come in and am sure you will not go
out without buying.
J. C. GRAY.
W. C. T. D.
A Letter to Temperance and Reform
Workers of the Territory.
Dear Friends: Through the
friendly columns of The Chieftain
I send you a letter regarding the
work of the Purity department of
the W. C T. U.
Intemperance and impurity are
twin evils and are a good deal like
the Siamese twins. We cannot
Jive lone is the territorv before
these matters present themselves
to us and often in very unwelcome
ways and we are obliged to face
the problems even tho' we may
not wish to become a brother's
keeper or a faultic; but the sooner
we take our position the better.
If your local purity superintend
ent thinks she lives in a model
town and the men and women are
all virtuous and the boys and girls
have no serious temptations and
the little children have no oppor-
tunity to bear or see anything evir;
you had better appoint her succes-
f or for no such town exists.
In order to wage a war against
an enemy it is necessary to know
who what and where the enemy
Is and it is also necessary to know
who your own officers are and
where they may be found; and if I
may be excused for carrying the
figure further I will say that it is
also quite necessary to know where
to find ammunition and the "grub
wagon "
The first thing to do is to study
your town and decide upou which
branches of the purity work can
be carried on to the best advan-
tage. Mothers' meetings are help-
ful and possible in every town and
country settlement. The New
Crusade the official organ of the
purity department furnishes sug-
gestions and material for mothers'
meetings.
If there are as many as three or
four young men who have suffi-
cient chivalry about them to be
willjng to protect any woman from
wrong or degredation organiie
them into a White Cross society.
Get the White Cross Manual find
courses of study in the New Cru-
sade and let the noble boys and
men get to work in this practical
christian cause.
If there are a few young women
who believe that the clean pure
souls of men are precious in God's
sight and are willing to become as
white shields to the young men
and young women of their town
organize them into a White Shield
circle. Get the White Shield
Manual and courses of study in the
New Crusade and the helpful in-
fluence of the girls will be inesti-
mable. If you are fortunate enough to
find both fathers and mothers in-
terested in the important business
of properly raising children or-
ganize them into a Child Culture
circle.
All this you will see is prevent-
ive and educational work. There
is a branch of legislative reform
work and there is room and op
Canned Goods Lower than
Wholesale Cost.
portunity for it here now. What
are our laws for the protection ol
women? What are our prohibitory
laws? What are the regulations re-
garding cigarettes? Does vile liter-
ature or evil pictures come unob-
structedlv into vour town home
and school:-? Acquaint yourself
with the work of Anthony Corn-
stock Wilbur F. Crafts Margaret
Dyer Ellis Dora Webb Mary
Wood Allen and Charlton Ed-
holin. The branch of the purity work
which has been left almost un-
touched in the territory is the res-
cue work.
We have not hesitated to drive
our unfortunate despised sisters
from pillar to post and we have
not hesitated to smile upon those
who were equally guilty with
them (may God forgive us and
give us larger "Christian charity
under the sun.") Let us do what
we can to rescue those who are
more wronged than wrong. A very
effective rescue work would be
done by taking the children from
demoralizing influences.
Victor Hugo said "Whosoever
opens a school closes a prison."
Let us hope that with the increase
of civilization there may be a de-
crease of crime and let us do our
best for the Christian temperance
and purity of the Indian civiliz-
ation. Mrs. E. C. Stretch
Ter. sunt of purity work for the
W. C. T. U.
The Liver Keeps People Well.
When the liver Is sluggish all other
organs are involved. You suffer from
constipation biliousness jaundice
headache indigestion pain in back
chills and losa of energy. You will
never know how promptly these troub-
les can be cured until you use herbinc.
It cures quickly when other remedies
utterly fail ltegnlates the liver pur-
ifies the blood. Herbine is a harmless
vegetable remedy that gives new life
and energy almost from the first dose.
Price 75 cents. Free trial bottle at
P. Shanahan's. yrb
There are two kinds of unhappy
people in the world those who arc
not known and those who arc miser
able because they arc knewn too well.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever
sores totter chapped hands chil-
blains corns and all skin eruptions
and positively cures piles or no pay
required. It Is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfactions or money refund-
ed. Price 2o cents per box. For sale
by A. XV. Foreman druggist. kyr
An act by which we make one friend
and one enemy is a losing game be-
cause revenge is a much stronger
principle than gratitude
Miss Delia Day writing from. Wa-
terloo Iowa says: "My hair has been
falling out for the past two years
and could get nothing to stop it until
1 tried Hcggs hair renewcr. One bot-
tle stoped it completely. People's
drug store.
PRIZE THEIR LUCKY BITS.
J I'cople Iiy Mlxlnke Pnj- Ont Old Colon
J fur Fare cm Cnlilc Cam.
"Oh my! I've lost my pocket piece"
'exclaimed a v ell-dressed woman in a
Broadway cable car.
"Couductorl conductor!" she called
out and when he reached her she went
en:
"I've lost my pocket piece. It was a
half dollar. What did I give you when
I paid my fare?"
"You gave me a silver half-dollar
madam" replied the conductor.
"Please look over your money" add-
ed the woman "and sec if it wasn't my
pocket-piece that I gave yon by mis-
take." The conductor was a bright-looking
young fellow and before he. began a
search for the missing coin he asked
the woman to describe It. This she did.
and then he started to go over his sil-
ver drawing a handful out of one pocket
and then ont of another.
He had to discontinue his hunt every
few moments to let a passenger get
on or off the car. The woman kept her
eye anxiously upon him all the time
however. Finally after going through
his pockets several times he brought
forth an old battered-looking half-dollar.
"Is that your pocket-piece?" he asked
the woman ns he handed it to her.
"Yes that's it!" she exclaimed joy-
fully and putting it away carefully in
her pocketbook she took out two half
dollars and giving them to the con-
ductor told him that one was for him-
self. The conductor thanked her and
went back to the rear of the car with a
smile on his face.
In speaking of the incident to an-
other passenger af tcrward the conduc-
tor said that the first half-dollar that
the woman gave him was an old one
dated 1S04 or 1605 and that he had no-
ticed it immediately.
'Would you have turned it in to the
company?" asked the passenger.
"Not much" replied the conductor.
"I nm always on the lookout for valu-
able finds like that. I know old pieces
of money as soon ns I glance at them
and I always put them away In another
pocket from that in which I keep my
change. We conductors often make a
good thing- out of old silver pieces that
we take in for fares. We find out If
there is a premium on such a piece
and so if we sell it to some collector of
old coins. Of course the railroad com-
pany doesn't lose anything by it be-
cause we turn in to the cashier a bright
new coin of the realm for it. The com-
pany has a long printed list hung up
in the cashier's office showing on what
pieces of silver money there is a pre-
mium. But the list is not there for our
benefit. The cashier is supposed to
keep all such pieces that the conductors
turn in nnd then sell them and credit
the company with the proceeds. But
if we conductors get a valuable coin for
fnres why shouldn't we benefit by it
nnd not the company? I don't think it
is dishonest to hold out tuch pieces from
the company. Do you?"
The passenger said that he did not
think it was.
The conductor added that he had be-
come nn adept in looking out for old
coins owing to experiences with his
passengers somewhat similar to the
one just recorded. lie remembered one
lime getting an old silver quarter from
a passenger. It was one of the earli-
est pieces of that denomination coined
by the government nnd he chanced to
notice it as he was counting up the
proceeds of his trip before turning them
in to the cashier. lie carefully tucked
the quarter away in his pocketbook
and gave the cashier one of his own.
"I carried the piece for more than
a week" he continued "when one aft-
ernoon a man got on my car and asked
me if he had ever ridden with me be-
fore. I looked at him for a moment
and then told him that I thought he
had although I could not remember
when it was.
"The reason I ask yon' said the
roan 'is that I have lost a valuable coin
and I believe that I paid it out by mis-
take. It was only nn old silver quarter
but I valued it as a pocket piece and 1
would cheerfully pay five dollars to get
it back.'
"Just then I remembered the silver
quarter Uiat I had stowed away in my
pocketbook and you can rely on it that
I wasn't long in bringing it to light.
'Well this is the only old silver quar-
ter that I have got' I said as I handed
it to the man.
"That's it; that's it!' he exclaimed
and he pulled out a big roll of bills and
gave me n five-dollar note. He told me
afterward that he was a broker in Wall
street and that that silver quarter was
his mascot. He declared that he had
lost it several times nnd that his luck
had always gone with it. He added that
he would bet that that quarter had
cost him $500 but that it had saved
him $100000. And there are many
more like him" added the conductor
as the passenger jumped off the car.
X. Y. Tribune.
The Minpf of the Earth.
A French scientist M. De 1'Apparent
fit.ds in Nnnsen's discovcrcy of the unex-
pectedly great depth of the Arctic ocean
an argument tendnig to show that the
earth is slightly top-shaped the protu-
berance corresponding to the point of
the top being at the south pole. This
he thinks would explain the different
results arrived at by the various meas-
urements of astronomers and geodes-
fats. These differences are very xmall in
:oniparison with the entire bulk of the
globe yet they nrc readily appreciable
and one of the explanations that has
been suggested for them is that the
earth is tetrahedral in form. But SI.
De I'Apparent thinks the top-shape
theory is preferable. The fact that to
an eye lookingattlie earth from a point
In space it would not sensibly differ in
appearance from a true sphere shows
how refined are the methods of science
w hlch enable men living on the surface
of the globe to detect variations in its
general contour. Youth's Companion.
1'oIUIkmI Celluloid Surfnrrn.
To obviate the rough or dull surface
resulting from coating paper wood
etc with fluid celluloid the objects
before or after mounting are brought
into contact in n heated condition and
under high pressure with highly-polished
metal surfaces the celluloid coat-
ing being softened and pressed closely
against the polished surface and al-
lowed to remain under pressure until
cool. Scientific American.
Xcar Boise City Idaho 400 feet be-
low the earth's surface there is a sub-
torranean lake of hot water of 170 de-
j grees temperature. It has prssure
enougn to acend to the top noor ol
most of the houses nnd will be piped
to them for heating purposes.
EVERYDAY HAPPINESS.
It In Fomiil Mnlnlj- In the Modext
llomeM.
Since the days of the wise men of
Israel and ns far back as the records of
the sages of other lands can be traced
a medium position in wealth has been
considered the happiest. Yet in spite
of sages and philosophers few men in
the world have been content when they
achieved the modest competence nnd
the moderate position in society. They
still went on laboring and achieving
in most cases until they had attained
the greatest wealth and the most ex-
tensive social power that they could.
Only when they reached old age and
like the wise man of Israel desired
chiefly to be delivered from "vanity and
lies" did they realize how little power
great riches possess.
The greatest happiness is certainly
not attained on social thrones but in
everyday homes "far from the mad-
ding crowd." In the pretty villages
throughout the length and breadth of
tho land are thousands of modest
homes with every evidence of compe-
tence and comfort displayed in well-
kept lawns the ample well-cultivated
vegetable gardens and fruit orchards.
There is no pretension of external lux-
ury in these low-gabled houses with
their vine-covered porches or ample
veranda strewn perhaps with chil-
dren's toys. They are the homes of the
everyday men and women who are
bringing up their children in thrift
honor and self-respect. Tho homes of
those for whom "light labor spread?
her wholesome store." The boys are
probably preparing for a trade a pro-
fession or the counting-room. The
girls also look forward to the time
when they will be wage-earners or lift
the load of household cares from the
beloved mother's shoulders. It is
quite likely they will marry but if
they are self-respecting American
girls they do not consider marriage in
the light that a foreign maiden usually
docs as a consummation to be gained
by sundry schemes and plottings. Onlj
a few American mothers descend to
the vulgar acts of the matchmaker in
order to secure homes for their mar-
riageable daughters. When the ac-
ceptable lover comes along and the
girl is wooed every one is pleased and
recognizes the fact that the highest po-
sition to which a woman can be called
is to be mistress of a happy well-ordered
home. There are misgivings
only if those who go to a new home are
not wise nnd frugal for every one
knows that nn unhappy marriage
brings with it the greatest sorrow and
almost the greatest shame that a wom-
an can know. American girls who are
wise no longer enter into matrimony
lightly as their grandmothers some-
times did because it wassomethingof a
disgrace to remain unmarried. They
perceive that a self-supporting woman
at whatever age occupies a far more
enviable position than the neglected
wife.
A small windfall of good fortune is
appreciated in the everyday home. It
means a vacation to the mountains or
seashore which has long been a cov-
eted pleasure. It means a now set of
books or a substantial sum in the bank
to guard against an evil day. Perhaps
it makes it possible for the son or
daughter to attend college. It is only
in an everyday household dependent
on a moderate income that a little
windfall of fortune brings additional
pleasure. The man of wealth can add
nothing to his pleasures by the addi-
tions he receives to his income. He al-
ready has everything he desires which
money can buy. A few hundred or
hundred thousand dollars added to his
fortune means little to him but so
many dollars to take care of and count.
X. Y. Tribune.
FOR NEXT WINTER.
IVhnt the Ladles Are Getting for
Wraps.
The latest novelty is a round cape
from 26 to 30 inches long with closely
lying plait in the back. The cape is of
moire silk and embroidered all over
with trailing plush application. The
several figures arc surrounded with silk
stitch or soutache while the empty
plnces are filled in with bead figures.
The entire cape is worked upon silk
lining and interlined with flannel.
The high storm collar is of fur
skunk thibct or Persian lamb. Slate-
lasses also are enhanced with embroid-
eries; the single figures such as leaves
flowers etc. arc surrounded withbeads.
With other patterns the ground is filled
with seed beads but the figures are not
ornamented.
l'lain capes nre being ordered in
large quantities. They nre of esquimo
and garnished all around with several
rows of machine stitching also stuff
bands and braid garnitures. These
capes generally have folds In the back.
They are also trimmed with embroider-
and ready-made passementerie collar.
The dolman costume will comply
with a real want next fall; the skirt is
tight and moderately short. The sack-
like bodice is of a loose fit both front
nnd back and about 25 inchcslong. The
back is held by an elastic band but
contrary to the style with box plaits
the band is not fastened to the side
whereby a sort of half sacque is pro-
duced. Leisure Hours.
I'lrkleil lt-nch-K nnd lenm.
Fruits for pickling should be fully
ripe. They need no cooking. After
skinning or paring a hot sirup is
poured over them; the following day it
is poured off reheated and returned;
again the following day the sirup is
brought to the boiling-point the fruit
is dropped in to be thoroughly heated
through when it is ready to be sealed.
To make sirup for ten pounds of fruit
boil together for ten minutes five
pounds of sugar one quart of vinegar
(not too sharp) and a cupful of whole
spices mixed cinnamon allspice
cloves nnd cassia-buds; the largest pro-
portion of cinnamon the smallest of
cloves. Woman's Home Companion.
CooLi-d Ciieniitlii-rN.
Pare and slice very thin lUe or siv
mediinn-Med cucumbers; cook in boil-
ing salted Water until ery soft; drain
off the water; add n cup of hot milk or
cream and season t itli butter salt nnd
p pper; split and toast five crackers;
liutter place on platter and pour the
hot cucumbers oer them- Leisure
Hours.
Melted Cneinler.
Select large firm cucumber peel
them and cut into quarters length-
wise drop them into boiling salted
water and let them stew gently for 20
- mutes. When done lay on slices of
oasted bread and pour over them a
Miirn Boston Globe.
1
i
Low prices are moving the bulk of Bad-
gett's immense stock. Don't pass a good
thing; get in line and save yourself some
money before the choice of the stock is ta-
ken. They are bound to sell. If the low
prices offered don't move them down they
go again. Get the bargains while you can.
To every person
6 packages Coffee for 50c
10 lbs Granulated Sugar 50c
44 lbs Beans for $1.00
11 lbs Brown Sugar for 50c
11 lbs Oa.t Meal for 25c
6 one-pound packages Soda - 25c
You don't have
" INJUV HAS SPOKEN."
Oh! the pity ol it! the shame of
it all! The much talked of and
worried over "Indian problem" is
solved at last; and what a solu-
tion! Ahab has tak m possession of
Nabotli's vineyard unlike the
Ahab of old who said plainly "I
want Nabotli's vineyard" this
modern civilized Ahab has made
all manner of excises so as to hide
his base coyetousness with the fair
cloak ol justice.
At first it was ' the Indians are
lazy and shiflltss; they won't
work; they do nothing but hunt
and fish." Wl en it was found
that the white man is as much
enamored with hunting and fish-
ing as the Indian is then tho tac-
tics were changed and this Was the
accusation: T':o Indian Terri-
tory is a harbor for outlaws es-
caped criminals and nil kinds of
desperadoes; crime is rampant."
Whereas in the states according
to the newspnpus there are more
crimes commiltul than were ever
heard of in the Indian Territorv.
Our officers ate accused of mal
administration; cf neglect of duty
and of mnlfeasanc -. robbery theli
and perjury. Wi.at state in the
union has alwas had officers with
a faultless reputaion? Even their
candidates tor ollr.-e aro bemeaned
and besmirched t prevent their
election and h .w can we know
such charges are true until thev
are proven? Goodness! What do
our ancestors thnm ol usr hy it
is enough to make them turn in
their graves to st- what their pos-
terity has come t ! Oh! the shame
ol it! Emigrate! Colonize! Go to
Mexico! Yes! lioti Patagonia
and the white man will follow you.
"EVKKYJIODY KNOWS SOMETHING."
And here comes not. John W.
Wilkinson who he is I don't
know but he knows that this is a
beautiful country: that it was "set
asidef? as a reservation for the
red men by President Jackson."
lie knows too that the honorable
president made a mistake. This
professor knows that "nearly all
the Indian cirls have married white
men;" he knows also that "in the
Cherokee nation today there are
less than five hundrtd hillbloods."
1 hiimblv ask the honorable 1110-
fessor to tell what hec.ime ol at
least seven thousand and live hun-
dred other fullbloods who received
their payment of "Strip imnuy?"
This learned professor knn.vs
that the "fullblood Indian should
be protected from the land sharks."
He is "comment (hear mm.) inai
the nresent concress will organize
a new territory; that such action
will bring in a horde of immi
grants;" "a great many have begun
to cornel" (how is thai protessor
begun to come.) He informs us that
the first corners will have an ad-
vantage over the later comers:
Here the professor goes oil into
rhapsodies about what "ire have
"our" climate our countr' otir
needs and he finishes off with a
general invitation "we cladlv wel
come all who will join us in a land
W. R BADGETX;
- . !3ig
buying a bill of DRY GOODS I will offer the following Bargains:
to buy the whole list. The less you buy the better
This Offer is: FOR THIS WEEK ONLY!
flowing with milk and honey.'
Now professor talk to us some
more about the "unprotected full-
blood" and the "land shark."
Injun.
A Pathetic Scene.
The bloody tragedy at Wiic re-
cently with the details of which
the public arc familiar furnished
one incident not so well known
which illumined the .dark scene
like a ray of sunlight from a rilted
cloud. 1 he Waco Tribune tells
us says the Houston Post that
just after death had claimed J. W.
Harris and while the once Dright
home was plunged in deepest sor-
row the little daughter of the
dead man knelt by the corpse and
ofiered up the following prayer:
"God our Father Thou has ta-
ken our dear papa home to Thee.
Oh keep and care for dear mama
and all of us and some day let us
meet and know papa again. And
our Father have mercy on the
man who killed my papa for he
has those who love him and are
praying for his life Dear God
hear them grant their prayers and
spare his life for them."
It was unnecessary for the Tri-
bune to add that in the presence
oi such a scene strong men wept.
The pathos of the gloomy situa-
tion was calculated to move the
stoutest and the hardest heart.
The fatherless child by the corpse
of a loving parent whom violence
had snatched so suddenly from life
and home and hope praying for
the author of all that ruin! There
was a glimpse of the divinity that
is within us shown in the sweet
charily and noble impulse of the
child.
"For he has those who love him
and are praying for his life!"
How like the Christ who exclaim-
ed "Forgive them Father for
they know not what ihey do!"
That little prayer breathing oil
that there is of hope and love and
charity in Christianity deserves to
be engraven upon the public mem-
ory. As the little eleven-year-old
girl knelt.awe-stricken in the ashes
of her home by the side of the
cold clay that bad been once her
brave protector her hope and her
pride and gazed upon the mule
lips that had so otten kissed h r
own and spoken the sweet words
of a great affection and in the
midst of her own unspeakable
affliction prayed that such sorrow
might be averted from the home
of "the man who killed papa" all
that is angel-like in child or self-
sacrilicial in woman or divine in
man found expression. It is such
incidents as these that keep the
human heart green and shed now
and then a heavenly radiance over
home and race.
And who can say that God did
not hear and nnswer that little
heart's petition?
One bottle of Dr. SiiiinionV Cough
Syrup w ill cure you lien perhaps all
the pliysici:ui in the world could not
three months from now: wlij not try a
holllv? Price llfty cent-;. .Satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded. -Wee
mm
Corn Starch per package 3c
Laundry Starch " 4y2c
15c cans KC.i5kg Powdr 3 for 25c
10c cans .Battle Axe " for 5c
Short clear bacon sides pr lb 5c
THEM 0IVN FAULT.
A leader among the Indian Ter-
ritory politicians said to a litpub
lie's staff correspondent:
"We all feel that the tribes are
passing through the most critical
period in their history. Person-
ally I am not averse to a change
but I do object to the arbitrary
manner in which congress has un-
dertaken to effect it. A change by
and with the consent of the tribes
would be all right but clearlj'
the attitude of the United States is
that the power makes the right.
The federal government knows
that we are powerless to resist any
disposal of our affairs it sees fit to
make and seems determined to
take the bit in its teeth regardless
of our wishes or treaty rights."
This sort of talk has for 20 years
characterized the plea of the In-
dian politicians for a postpone
ment of the dissolution of present
irksome and annoying conditions
in the Territory. That long it has
been effective at Washington. It
induced congress to authorize the
president to appoint a commission
to treat with the tribes for the
abandonment of their relations
the allotment of their lands and
the opening of the teritory to set-
tlement. The commission has
been earnestly intelligently and
conscientiously at work among
them for four years and the ques-
tions in dispute are as far from
settlement as they were before the
commission was created. In tak-
ing the drastic action last year by
which the Indian courts were
abolished and the tribal councils
were divested of much of their
power and authority congress
showed thai the limit of its pa-
tience had been reached at last
and that the Indian politicians
have lost their influence at Wash-
ington. It is now only a matter of a short
time before we shall hear the last
of this Indian Territory question.
The politicians have prevented the
tribes from accepting the liberal
and entirely humane terms of the
Dawes commission; in fact they
have not permitted them to con-
sent to any sort of arrangement
with the commission and the mag-
nanimity of the federal govern-
ment was never more conspicuous-
ly displayed than in the manner
in which the first approach to the
final disruption of the farcical tribal
states has been made. It is safe
to predict that if the politicians at
Tahlequah Mu-kogee and McAl-
cster hold their peace from now on
ihc Indian masses will quietly
submit to the change that is inev-
itable. Can't express her thanks scrofula
sores terrible itching entirely cured.
Mrs. Emily Ford Eldoia Hardin Co.
Iowa writes: "1 can't express my
thanks for the box of lleggs German
salve :w it lus entirely cured the ter-
rible itching and burning lhat was in
uiyanUIcs caused hy scrofula sores.
People's drug store.
Hood's calender for Iv03 is i very
pretty thing as usual
we are pleased.
Stock of Goods For Sale.
At Bluejacket a mixed stock con-
sisting of dry goods groceries boots
shoes and a little shelf hardware; for
sale as a whole. Also will sell or
lease the building. An excellent bus-
iness opportunity to anyone wishing
to embark in trade.
18-19 IIowe & Piscaxxox.
It is no unusual thing for a vessel
plying between Japan and London to
carry 1000000 fans as a single item of
its cargo.
A merchant advertising his goods
gave notice that he would take
in payment all kinds of country pro-
duce except promises.
COUNTRY WITHOUT CRIMINALS.
Onlr Two Theft Have Occurred la
1000 Years In Iceland.
In Iceland there are no prisons and
the Inhabitants are so honest in their
habits that sruch defenses to property
as locks bolts and bars are not required;
nor are there any police in the island.
Yet Its history for 1000 years records
no more than two thefts. Oi these two
cases one -was that of a native who was
detected after stealing several sheep
but as he. had done so to supply his
family who were suffering for want of
food when he had broken his arm pro-
visions were furnished to them and
work was found for him when able to!
do it and meanwhile he was placed tin-!
der medical care but the stigma at
tached to bis crime was considered suf-
ficient punishment.
The. other theft was by a German who
stole 17 sheep. But as he was in com-
fortable circumstances and the robbery
was malicious the sentence passed upon
him was that he should sell all his prop
erty restore the value of what he had
stolen and then leave the country or
be executed and he left at once. But
thousrh crime is rare in Iceland and its
inhabitants nre distinguished for hon-
esty nnd purity of morals there is of
course provision for the administra
tion of justice which consists first of
oil. in the sheriff's courts; next by ap-
peals to the court of three judges at
Iteykjnvik. the rapital and lastly in
all criminal and most civil cases to the
supreme court at Copenhagen the capi-
tal of Denmark of wliich kingdom tho
island forms a part. The island of.
Pananis (one of the Lipari group) Is
equally fortunate in having neither
prisons nor lawyers and being abso-
lutely destitute of both paupers and
crlminnls. Boston Transcript.
SKINS
ON FIRE
Skins on firo with torturing; disfiguring
itching burning bleeding scaly and ptmplT
humors. Instantly relieved by a waiiu bath
TrilhCcriciKA Soap a single application of
Ccticttea (ointment) tho great stia cure
and a full dose of CCT1CCBA ItESOLYcrr
(uticura
la told IhroonhOTt trw world. IMtti D. k C Coir.. Soto
FropsBotton. - Uaw toCBreTortiiriot Uinnow"lif.
D1DV1Q ClflU SalpodlLlrrurdd B..
yRDI Q OMfl lited.br Ccnctu Mr.
"N
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.
Marrs, D. M. The Indian Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 20, Ed. 1, Thursday, January 13, 1898, newspaper, January 13, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc71524/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.