The Reporter. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. IX.
CHELSEA, CHEROKEE NATION, INDIAN TERRITORY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22. 1904.
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;j. T. ncSPAODEN,
President
W. a MILAW,
Vlca«Ci cddent
CHAS. WINDHAM, A «ltUnt C. hkr
JOHN D. SCOTT'i
CMhlcr
Bank of Chelsea,
1896 Che,sea> Indian Territory jqoj
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS;
and Respectfully Solicits Your Account
DIRECTORS:
J. T. flcSpadden, C. L, Lane. W. P. Mc5paddun, W, a. nilam. i
J. M. Sharp, W. J. Strange, John D. Scott
_ Any valuable papers you desire to protect will be absolutely safe with us j
B as we have the best protection fcr them that can he hul in Indian Territory i
™ and no charge for their care, Any collections you desire made we desire
you will leave with us. We remit for all collections the day we reccive
them. '
J. G. MEHUN.
PRESIDENT
M. W. COUCH.
VICE PfiESIDSNT
CHELSEA MILLING
—COMPANY.—
U. S. JEFFERIES. MANAGER.
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BRANDS -
American Patent,
0. K. Straight Patent,
Gold Barrel,
Lily of Egypt.
You will find our Flour iti all of the principal stores of our
neighboring towus. Call for and try it, and if it does not
give satisfaction, take it back where* you got it and get your
money back or another sack in its place. It will r.ot cost you
anything as we fully guarantee our flour to give satisfaction.
We also do a rep ular exchange and deposite business with
the farmers. Bring me your wheat and crrn and I will
guarantee we will send you home perfectly satisfied with both
the quanity atd quality you receive. Yours for business,
Chelsea Milting Coijipaijt)
<1
The New Year.
Is with us now, may it be both
a prosperous one to all of our
friends and customers, and if
indications count, it will be.
We have just received a large
shipment of fresh groceries in
addition to the large stock we
already carried, and are better
able now than ever before to
snpply your wants. Try pay-
ing cash for your groceries this
year and see how much money
we can save you.
BILL'S STORE
W. S. Sutherland, Prop.
Blacksmithiiig
Iu all its branches carefully aud quickly done. Wagon and car-
cairiage wotk a specialty. All kinds of farm machinery over-
hauled and repaired. Bring in your work.
Mr, W. T. Fc-rbes, an expert horseshoer, is now employed in
my shop, where you will always find us trying to pleas? our cus-
tomers. When you need any work in our line, come and see us
W. A.
Chelsea, Indian Territory
A WHALER'S RETURN.
Some Results of Life in High nil
tudea.
The steam whaler Thrasher arrived
at San Francisco from the Arctic,
with about GyOOO pounds of whale-
bone. She sent down 3,000 pounds
earlier in the year, and her total har-
vest for the season, 9,000 pounds, will
mean a neat balance for the captain
and officers. The foremost hands and
green members of the crew will have
had a long ridp and tlvfir Bharo may
be large enough to leave them a few
dollars after their indebtedness to
the ship is settled.
The Thrasher, says the New Bed-
ford Standard, went far to the north,
but saw little ice there, and not many
whales. The bone she brought down
r.vas obtained from five bowheads. She
had some experience in the early ice
and was detained in a pack for three
weeks. This detention lost for the
Thrasher's officers a golden- oppor-
tunity for trading with the Jawves.
The other boats of the fleet escaped
the ice and had cleaned out the bar-
ter market when the Thrasher came
to hand.
The Thrasher's officers made sev-
eral attempts to trade with the na-
tives on the Siberian coast, but found
the vigilance of the Russian conces-
sionaires too much for even. Yankee
ingenuity. ^
Gold in paying quantities has been
discovered some ten ^miles inland
from East Cape. Thrasher people
were shown some of the nuggets and
listened to many stories of the won-
derful richness of the newly found
mines. Ail the trading privileges on
the Siberian coast have been conced-
ed to Russians, who guard their rights
most religiously. They are working
these mines and many of the holders
of concessions are making consid-
erable money.
Oscar Whelstrom, a Swedish sail-
or on the Thrasher, went insane dur-
ing the early part of the cruise and
was sent home on the steamship Port-
land. He was sent ashore in irons at
Dutch Harbor. So peacefully did he
behave that his custodians ashore re-
moved the restraining handcuffs and
leg irons and accorded the demented
sailor a large measure of freedom. He
took advantage of this one stormy
night, escaped from jail, launched a
small boat and, with only one oar, at-
tempted to reach the Thrasher, an-
chored a mile from the beach. His
absence was discovered and a life-
boat left the beach in chase. In spite
of the crankiness of his craft and the
fact that he had but one oar, Oscar
gave his pursuers a long chase, and
was within a few hundred yards of
the whaler when overtaken.
James Allen, another member of
the Thrasher's crew, was left at Tort
Hope at his own request. He will re-
main there until next year and will
put in the winter hunting whales and
fur game from the ice floes.
Herman Hailman, a sailor on the
whaler Jeanette, attempted to escape
over the ice to the Alaskan coast, but
when he had covered a mile of the
journey to the shore, the fifth mate
and a party of Eskimos went after
him with rifles.
Two other sailors, John Murphy
and John Drew, sent a letter ashore
at St. Michaels, claiming to have been
shanghaied and expressing prefer-
ence for two years in prison to contin-
uing on the whaler. They continued
on the Jeanettp.
PRESIDENT TURNS DOWN
DAWES COMMISSION.
A hearing wa« held at the White
house today on the question of the
approval of segregation for the
Delaware Indians of 157,600 acres
of land iti the Cherokee? nation.
S.nator Quay, Attorney Gene-al
Knox, Secretary Hitchcock, W. A
Jones, commissioner of Indian af
fairs; Assistai.t Attorney General
Campbell, Tains Bixby, chairman
<>( the Dawes ccmmiis'on; C. R
Brtckenrige, member of the Dawes
commission; Walter S. Logau, of
New Ycrl; ex-Senator James K
Jones, of Aikiusaw; Richard C.
Adams, representative of the Del
a wares; John Hemphill, represent-
ative of the Cherokee-; J. Hcnr>
Dick, David Musk rat and R M.
Wolf, representing the full blocd
Cherckees, were present.
The effort on the part of the
Delaware Indinns was to prevent
the secretary of the interior from
selling aside the segregation of
lauds heretofore made for the Del-
aware Indians and substituting for
that segregation '.he new segrega-
tion proposed by the Dawes Com-
mission.
The president, after a brief con-
ference, decided that the old segre-
gation should stand as contented
for by the Delewires until the case
now perding in the supreme court
of the United States, involving the
same question, has been dGcided.
PRIZES FOR FARMERS.
Two farmers of Noble county,
Oklahoma, will receive free trans-
portation to St. Louis and return
during the World's Fair. The St.
Louis and San Francisco railroad
has aft'ered the transportation as
an additional prize to the farmers
exhibiting the best half-bushel of
white or yellow corn at the Farm-
ers Institute to be held in Perry,
Oklahoma.
DOWN IN A COAL MINE
Down in a coal mine underneath
the grcr.nd the visitors at the
World's Fair may wander and ex-
plore to thttr hearts content. He
may at his luxurious easa penetrate
drifts and luui.els of gre:?t length:-"
c::d see the miners delve in the
ground and bring forth the black
diamcuds that have Iain for cotint-
Icss ages awaiting the demat-ds of
civilization.
He may s.-e the coal as it lies in
its natural state: he may see it
loaded into cars - in the mines and
hauled by niuhs !o the shaft where
by the latest m; chinery it will be
hois.ed to an up-to-date coal break
er ond may witnsss the breaking
washing aud si -irg of coal. Every
process of milling will be shown
ai d all of the processer of trans-
porting the coal will be exhibited.
Tr.is exhibit, which will be one
of the many interesting features
of the mining gulch of 12 acres at
the World's Fair is being installed
by the coal operators of the Penn-
sylvania anehracitc fields and the
manufacturers of miring machins
and equipment.
Ti e coal breaker will be theoniy
part of the exhibit that may be
viewed from rbove ground. This
will be a typical structure aud will
rise about go feet. The rest of the
exhibit will be underground. Coil
netted with the breaker will be a
sovel ekctsic railioad that will
fcl'.ow the main tunnel aud the
visitor may take a round trip via
this novel route, and on his un-
dergioutd journey he may get a
practical knowledge of everything
pertaining to coal mining as it is
carried pn in the famous Pennsyl-
vania districts.
city, and weighs 2,700 "p 1 ti 1 *
Snyder is a beautiful dark el • un
in color, with not a mark cm
except on his forehead. T'ri-. .vVt
t.vo one inch horns wl-i.'. >rj
growing out of his temples e Vs
remarkable features. The ii
caunct be accounted for. T.
rt'he white 1 tar or puzzle i -. • ■ •
fo;tquarters of a horse o; k'n-< r
showing the legs, head and N.r: ;
and the curve of the neck. 1 In ,
also I een likened to a uir.p o' it t
America. A man of awr-g-
height when standing at Si v i- <
Lead only reaches his no e, a* 1)
when he is groomed it is 1:1 c.suy
to usa a step ladder.
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is an
ma! j
GRAFTER IS OUT.
The deathblow to the graf
the matter of leases on allotti <!
ians lands has been, dealt by I
Agent J. Blair Shoenfilt. I
order declaring all leases
prior to January r. 1903, fo
unless there has peen improv.1 ts
made upon the land.
The lar.ds of the Creek r.
particularly, are encumbeic M*\*
farming leases which were i koi
for speculation aud upon whi :'i !••>
improvements have been nn'u*.
This decision will cffect at len -: 7 ;
per cent of the leases iu the C ■ :
uation. It will have the eff-.-cl of
stimulating the bidding upo-i ilu
allotments advertised for ta *. 1,
there will be no intervening •
for years to hamper the pur.-'.
at
cr-
ih-
Sea son-tickets good for <
day of the seven mouths
World's Fair will be issued a: 3 .-^
each. They will not be tr i
able.
Missouri'^ forestry, fi<": 11 1
game exhibit at the World'.- I-'air.
will cover nearly two acr.--. of
ground and will be situated west
if the Forestry, Fish and G un$
Palace.
The French paviliou a' the*
World's Fair is a replica o; the
Grand Trianon at Versailles. The
walls cf the central room will bev
hur.g with fine old tapestrie- r.;:u
the royal apartments at Versui !es.
Belgium v. ill make a great ex-
hibit of draft horses at the World's
Fair. The animals are being as-
sembled at Springfield, III., v.'.tre,
they will be kept un til the I' v po-
sition opens.
HORSE HAS HORNS
Snyder, the biggest horse in the
world, and one of the most wonder-
ful animal frer.ks in the world will
be exhibited at the World's Fair.
The horse is a pcrcheron gelding
and is ow ned by Charles H. Gam-
ble and H. Williams of New Yorfc
The American Angora ' Goat
breeders Association will ma'.:e a
great exhibit at the World's Fair,
Over 100 liberal cash prizes 1 ave ,
been offered aud it is possible for
a single bunch tq win $500.
The New Yory Central Kail-
road's new train, "The Lov." ana
Purchase Limited," will be 0::: of
the best equipped and fastest in
the world. The new equi v.m t
was ordered expressly to i n die
the World's Fair traffic.
The windows of the Idaho i'd*
ing at the World's Fair wii: be
transparencies showing the woucS
erfully beautiful scenery cf that
state. The Shoshsne Falls in
Idaho are 220 feet high, Gj .rcet
higher than the great Niagva Tails
and of greater volume.
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