The Indian Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 17, No. 29, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 16, 1899 Page: 1 of 4
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CHIEFTAIN PUBLISHING CO.
VINITA INDIAN TERRITORY THURSDAY MARCH
1S99.
VOL. XVII. NO. 29
Mli5ilfilMlM
IS NOW SECY OF STATE.
INCIDENT OF AN EARLY
s 08 CHEROKEE SCHOOL.
The Incorporation Bill
Become a Law.
Has
ONE PURE BAKING POWDER.
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Don't forget that JOHN DEERE plows and planters are the world's
standard. For 50 years he has led; others imitate.
Just received a car of the celebrated
: BAIN wagons with the Oregon Moun- :
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Now that old Boreas has had his blowout
and has sobered up we shall enjoy the spring-
weather all the more and so will the house-
wife. Soon will come the time that the wife
delights in and the husband dreads house
cleaning time. I
We are prepared to supply all demands. .
Chairs are alwavs
and we'll say nothing- else about the good bargains we
have to offer you save this come and see for your-
self; we'll abide by what you decide.
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MANY A HAN'S SUCCESS
Begins here where he can sa e nickles
and dimes on all his
'Consider
Careful Iy
and you willfind
that my prices
suit better and
111 ney saved is
money earned.
I! ct saddles
aad harness
made right
here.
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ARE PLANNING TO MOVE
AND MUST HAVE MORE ROOM.
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was coofced on a
Buck's steel range
the kind with white
enameled doors.
m demand at such times:
purchases.
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Waff h OW.
Bring it in; we'll right it.
The people who are singing
"Just behind the times"
didn't net their time-puce
here. Perhaps you're hesi-
tating because yon didn't;
don't do it; come in and you
can go out on time.
Th? Be? Jewelry Store
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REBEKAH BANQUET.
Eleven Initiates and a Good
Social Time.
Having n goodly amount of work
t do Friday eve. the members of
Etht-r Rfbrkah Lodge No. G ol
Vini ta decided to add to the pleas-
ure of the evening by giving a nice
surpr in connection. The women
folk- were lm?3' for a da' or two
previous arranging for the feast
a surprise to the new members.
Eleven persons were initiated
into tbe order as follow: Mr. and
Mrs. Will Ward Mr. and Mrs.
Will McC'ullom Mr. and Mrs. Ar-
thur Maeterson Mrs. W. P. Iltn-
dereon Mrs. G. M. Ilaltom Dr.
C. Uailey Hell Capt. R C. Day
and George W. Green Jr. Two
more infttitfe Mrs. M. Kuhn and
Bruce Robinson were expected
but it was not convenient for them
to be present.
The work was concluded at a late
hour and of course everybody'was
ripe for supper. The tables were
arranged in the hall between the
Masonic and Odd Fellows' lodge
rooms and were laden with a
bountiful i-uppty of ever3'thing
good to eat that the inner man or-
dinariiy craves and from The
Chieftain man's observation ev-
erybody had their appetites with
'em. It was a feast in the true
sense of the word.
There were Odd fellows and Re-
bekahs present who had not been
I lodge in months just simply
to pa- up their dues and receive
the new passwords and almost
begin over again.
Generally speaking there seem-
ed to be a renewed interest in the
lodge last evening which demon-
strates very clearly that these so-
cial features should be more fre-
quent occurrences.
A number of outside parties
friends of members were present
and participated in the supper
and we believe it is a safe propo-
sition that it was an evening thor-
oughly enjoyed by all and a vote
of thanks is due the Rebekah la-
dies for their untiring efforts to
have it thus.
The lodge will meet weekly
every Friday evening in the fu-
ture and expects to grow rapidly
from this on.
"1 am Not Hobson.''
William Jennings Bryan Wed-
nesday refused to kiss a young
lady who put her desire in the
form of a request. Mr. Bryan was
parsing through Brenham on the
way to Houston where he spoke
that night.
Quite a crowd gathered at the
station and saluted the distin-gui-hed
Nebraekan who willing!
.shook hands with all whom he
could accommodate. Miss Ruby
Gardner of that city however de-
sired to change the mothod of wel-
coming the noted silver champion.
"Mr. Bryan" she .said '-will
you give me a kis?"
"My dear young woman" re-
plied Mr. Bryan "you will have
to excuse me; I am not Hobson ''
He did not bhisli half as much
as did the fair girl who failed to
get the kis.
The Mu&kogee Phoenix has die-
covered that the Cherokee treaty
was grossly unjust and that tbe
IXiwee commission reluctantly
signed it.
Tht Mu'-koj.ee Times is still
talking about the big O.e.
Suuth McAlcter Capital.
Washington D. C March 7.
The last session of the fifty fifth
congress was not of any great mo-
ment to Indian Territory in partic
ular. It refused to consider the
Creek and Cherokee treaties; it
failed to pass any bill of general
importance to the territory aside
froir a bill authorizing the incor-
poration ol corporations and the
annual appropriation bills.
The Corporation bill which be
came ;k law is as follow?:
Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the
United States of America in con-
gress assembled that section nine
hundred and sixty and the suc
ceeding stctions down to and in-
eluding section one thousand and
thirty five of the laws of Arkan-
sas as published in 1SS-1 in the
volume known as Mansfield's Di-
gest of the statutes of Arkansas
be and the same are hereby ex-
tended over and put in foice as far
s they may be applicable and not
in conflict with any law of con-
gress applicable to said territory
heretofore pased.
Sec. 2. That wherever in said
section the word "county" occurs
there shall be substituted therefor
the words "judicial district;"
wherever the words "state or state
of Aiknnsas" occur there shall be
substituted therefor the vords "In-
dian Territory;" wherever the
words "Secretary of State" occur
there shall be substituted therefor
the words "clerk of the United
States com t -of appeals for the In-
dian Territory; and said clerk shall
be entitled to the same fees and
compensation for his services un-
der this act; wherever the words
"clerk of the county" occur .there
shall be substituted therefor the
words "clerk of the judicial dis-
trict" and Mild clerk shall be enti-
tled to the same fees and compen-
sation for his services rendered
under this act. that cotintv clerks
aYe'en'litlell'fo receive for like ser
vices and shall remain the same as
compensation lor his services un-
der this act; wherever the words
"general assembly" occur there
shall be substituted therefor the
words "congress of the United
States;" and wherever the words
"vest in the state" occur there
shall be substituted therefor the
words "vest in the United States."
Sec 3. That the United States
courts in Indian Territory shall
have and exercise in reference to
all corporations created under this
act the same powers and jurisdic-
tion as may be exercised in the
stale of Arkansas by the courts
oyer corporations created therein
under the provisions of any law in
force in that state relating to cor-
porations. The interior department will
proceed immediately in the Chero-
kee and Creek nations to put into
force the Curtis law. The ap-
praisers will all be appointed
within the .next two weeks and
work will be commenced as soon
as regulations con be prepared by
the department officials.
The Choctaw and Chickasaw
lownsite appraisers will commence
work as soon as the necessary
regulations are prepared for their
guidance.
The comptroller of the treasury
has sustained his former decision
in regard to the illegality of the
Cherokee warrants issued by the
tribe since the passage of the Cur-
tis law. Under this decision all
warrants issued by the tribe since
the first day of July last are in-
valid. Wkkstkr Bau.ixgkb.
Notice to Creek Citizens-.
The Dawes commission has is-
sued the following notice to Creek
citizens:
"Notice is given that on the first
day of April 1S99 at the town of
Muskogee in the Creek nation
j Indian Territory the commission
to the five civilized tribes will
open an ofijee at which citizens of
the Creek nation and Creek freed-
raen whose rights to citizenship
is unquestioned may each select
100 acre3 of land from the Creek
domain as providd by the rules
and regulations made by the sec-
retary of the interior on October
the seventh 1S9S." Muskogee
limes
Touuciid'.s .llolhcr Djhiir.
Judge Townsend of the South-
ern district received a telegram
from Cleveland 0. slating that
his mother was in a dying condi-
tion. He left for that place and
court which was to convene at
Paul d Valley Monday will be
continued until his return. Wag-
oner Sayings.
1
TOI.D UV ONE
-
The severe humor that gave char-
acter to human society in this coun-
try sixty years ago will sometimes
do to laugh at even in these prim
days of art starch and gonteel
formality.
The Cherokees had been driven
out of Georgia had ended their
pilgrimage and footsore and tired
had dropped themselves down into
unorganized communities along up
and down the country just on the
west side of that line which marks
the boundary between the Indian
Territory and the stale of Arkan-
sas. On the cast side of that line
lay Washington county on the
west Going Snake district. Both
sections were in n wild state of na-
ture. A few white settlers had
planted the banner of civilization
hero and there throughout the
forests of tho country; but their
character manners and methods
were not by any means always in
accord with the peaceful ideai
symbolized by the onign under
which they claimed to walk. The
Indians had been worried by their
late experience into a state of tem-
per in which they were ill prepar-
ed to take the least insult from the
neighboring white men; while at
the same time tho humiliation to
which the former had been reduced
by the late arbitrary action of the
government seemed to encourage
in the mind of the latter a silly
notion that the Indians had been
formally set apart as legitimate
material for the gratification of
over-theline ruffianism. Personal
altercations from this cause were
frequent between whites and In-
dians. Fists were tho main weap-
on; but pistols and long knives
were hy no means uutcuown.
Blocd fliwed on both sides. There
was said to be some law in the
state; in the territory there was cer-
tainly none.
This unfriendly feeling of antag-
onism infoted the minds of the
children and youth of the respctive
communities An Indian boy and
a white boy seldom met without
manifestations of mutual dislike
and often parted not without some
serioti3 exhibition of hostility.
There soon sprang up among
the Indians a desire to renew their
0ff..ioiBii...i.fn!i:...i i:f.
and among the first steps taken
was to organize a day school. The
bouse was built of hewed logs six-
teen by eighteen covered with
clapboards rived ..oni the trunk of
the tree and held onto the roof by
means of "weight poles;" the floor
was laid of slabs somewhat
smoothed with the broad-axe; the
fire-place was nine feet wide and
proportionally deep. The place
bad been selected as near the cen-
tor of the neighborhood as practi-
cable by the road-side path-side
rather; for highways had been left
far behind with trudging civiliza-
tion and the ground was a vast
thicket of young trees and shrubs
of every imaginable growth.
In this log pen on one Septem-
ber day when the forest and thick-
et wero in full leaf there were
about forty young Cherokee In-
dians assembled young men
young women boys and girls and
little children seated on splitlog
seats for the purpose of mental
culture. Some had books but
more had none. Proud indeed
was he who could boast the pos-
session of an old Webster with tho
picture showing the boy in the
anple tree and the bear having
the man down. The teacher was
a white man who had ingratiated
himself into the confidence of the
Indians so far as to he intrusted
by them with the training of their
childron. lie was a good scholar
a fine character in every way
worthy of the confidence of his
patrons.
On that September day near the
hour of noon all at once two horse-
men (bulled out of the neighboring
thicket intotheyard they charged-
and galloping around and around
the house yelled forth a chorus of
insulting slanglhe refrain of which
was "school butter!" "school but-
ter!" in prolonged repetition.
The little children screamed and
sprang to their feet. 7 he eyes of
the girls Hashed fire as they wrath-
fully shouted "white boys!"
"white boys!" In an instant every
boy in the house was bounding in
the direction of the door. But the
teacher who was a man of giant
proportions planted himself in
the way of egress and by means of
vociferous and pathetic appeals in
behalf of moderation and peace
induced the house soon to return
OF THE SCHOf. RS.
to order. This was tho more easi-
ly done in view of the fact that the
assailants fearing the speedy re-
sults of their adventure had gallop-
ed away out of supposed danger.
This ir.sult was repeated several
times at intervals for a course of
weeks. In the meantime the feol-
ing of revenge on part of the In-
dian boys had quietly outgrown
the pacific influence of the teacher.
Day after day they had their
scouts out on duty in the thickets
to keep watch for the rowdies and
report their approach promptly at
headquarters. One day of that
September in the forenoon the
quiet of that leg school room was
startled into a tremor of excite-
ment. Tah-ne-naw-lee a little
fellow about sixteen years of age
came bounding in at the door ex-
claiming in a voeiferous whisper
"White man come!" "White
man come!" Books meagre in
.upp!y flew to the winds; the In-
dian boys were up and out before
the teacher had tune to think about
measures of intervention. Every
one to his ambush. Tho teacher
and tho girls were left alone in the
house; the latter to the great sat
isfaction of the master maintained
a form of order; but it was not be
cause of any want of the war feel-
ing on their part but rather from
a motive of present policy lest
the enemy seeing some unusual
commotion should take the hint
and by means of t'mely precaution
escape the auu-h.
On they oame. At the proper
spot and moment the ambush
rose. The white men ere they
were aware of their situation saw
Indiana on the lisbt. Indians on
the left Indians behind and before
them. One of them the bigger
and tho more heroic of the two
clapped spurs to his horse and
endeavored to charge over the de-
termined posse before him. But
a burly young man by the namoof
Ah-nah-g.? lee-akee (lightning)
lithe as a whip and as active as a
panther made a spring and caught
his hor-e by the headstall and
brought the animal's neck with a
sudden wrench that threw him to
his kneed and his rider sprawling
"!'"" l"c '"" me ibiiow was
i.r.. Ik- -.....! 'Pi... rii
iP11" lhe hands of his cap
tors. His comrade in inmuitv.
seeing the untoward fate of his
leader dismounted and surrender-
ed without resistance.
A council was held upon the
spot to determine the punishment
to be inflicted upon the offenders.
It was unanimously decided that
they should be wallowed in the
great mud hole that lay about
eighty rods from the school house
and which the hogs and other ani-
mals were keeping in a good state
of preparation.
By this time the teacher and the
girls had joined the crowd of in-
quisition; the former importuning
for lenity in behalf of the prison-
ers and tho latter giggling over
the one lucky turn of the lardy
wheel of justice.
On arriving at the brink of the
quagmire the prisoners sued for
an opportunity to speak; it was
granted. They proposed to go in
and wallow themselves provided
they should be permitted to keep
their heads above flood. These
terms were agreed to and the
white men began to get ready to
wade into the mire when a young
squaw stepped forward and with
tears of something more than pity
flooding her eyes sobbed pathet-
ically "Stop!" "Boys it is
enough we must not do this!"
The blue eye had met the black in
a moment of adversity; and the
bars of race distinction had to melt
away. The sob became contagious
and soon the whole squawhood of
the school was in tears over tho
fate of tbe white men. The teach-
er j-dned in the appeal for pardon.
The Indian boys relented; with so
great a pressure against them they
could not do otherwise.
Upon their solemn promise to
leave the nation and give the In-
dians no more trouble about their
little wildwood school the prison-
ers were discharged and allowed
to depart without further molesta-
tion. But tbe little rascal Cupid had
got in his fatal work. The blue
eye never forgot the black; it
haunted him day and night. It
induced the blue (a usual) to
violate his pledge. He returned
to tho nation sought out tha black
became a squaw man lived an
honorable life died a groat friend
of the Indian? went to heaven
and left many noble descendants
to pr rpe'tnte hi- name anvng the
Cherokees
Over seventy per cent of all baking powders
contain alum. The ill effects upon the system of food
leavened by this injurious drug are attested by the
highest medical authorities. Alum baking powders
would be less dangerous were they fatal at once for
then thsy surely would be avoided but their baneful
action because imperceptible at first and slow in its
advances is no less certain.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
is certified by all authorities as free from alum or any
other adulterant. Its purity has never been questioned
and while itcs finer and better work it costs no more
than many of the adulterated powders.
It received the highest award at the World's
Columbian Exposition (Chicago 1893) and at the
California Midwinter International Exposition (San
Francisco 1894) a special gold medal.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Afton Nominees and Their
Platform.
Mayor J. J. Hubbard.
Recorder Dr. R. H. Harper.
Aldermen J. B. Dawson Jas.
Lowe J. L. Courtnev. W. L.
Felton W. W. Painter."
W.ATKOKM.
Believing it to be to the interest
of the people that they should
have in advance the principles to
be followed in the government of
our city by the democratic ticket
to be voted on at the election to
be held on Tuesday the 4th day
of April 1S99 we set forth the fol-
lowing platform as embodying the
leading feature of democratic prin
ciples as adapted to local condi
tions.
1. Believing economy to be the
necessary feature of good govern-
ment we advocate scrupulous
prudence in all expenditures of the
city revenue?; careful avoidance of
unnecessary indebtedness; quart
erly publication of a statement of
receipts and disbursements of city
finances.
2. We advocate securing perfect
titles to our town lots on the most
favorable terms possible.
3. We are in favor of the estab-
lishment the earliest possible
time of a uniform system of tax-
ation on the personal property and
improvements within the incorpor-
ate limits which will bear on rich
and poor alike; we recognize that
the present occupation taxes
though the best possible under the
circumstances .ire unequal and
bear heavily on the few and not at
all on the many.
4. Recognizing the broad fact
that public schools and proper
education are the mainstay and
bulwark of our liberties and of our
government the cause and source
of the unparalleed prosperity and
wonderful progress of our nation
wo heartiiy indorse the free school
system and pledge ourselves to
establish schools for the children
of our city and to levy a reason-
able tax on the assessment valua-
tion of property within the incor-
porate limits to maintain them in
proper condition; previous to this
time other possible legislation was
in view but now we are under the
Curtis law and shall endeavor to
carry out its intente and purposes
as to schools the fullest extent.
o. Wo favor the enforcement of
exisiting laws and the passage of
such othors as may be necessary
to secure a sanitary condition of
our town; make it clean and at-
trac'iver and to remove and pre-
vent as Jar as possible the causes
of epidemic diseases.
G. We pledge ourselves to all
needful improvements of our
streets and bridges and to maintain
thfcin in good condition; to use
with due discretion the labor which
the law requires to be done on
them; and to keep any and all oth-
er public work in the best condi
tion possiote with the means at
our disposal; we advocate levying
a tax tor the above purpose so as
not to impose an unequal burden
on labor and but little on property
owners who are most interested.
7. We oppose the imposition of
occupation taxes believing that
the revenues of the town should
e raided by fair and equal taxa-
ton on pr pcry .nd imprjve-
intents within the incorporate lim -
ils; we also favor a reasonable li-
cense on certain privileges such
as circuses peddler3 medicine
venors etc. etc.
S. We promise to appoint to the
city offices men who are qualified
lor various positions by reason of
known integrity honesty and up-
rightness. 9. We favor the rigid enforce-
ment of the present stock laws.
10. We do not "propose to place
upon saloons gambling tables
and other immoral resorts" any
license whatsoever because we
are totally opposed to them on any
conditions; we do not believe that
they go hand in hand with free
schools churches education or
any mental moral or physical ad-
vancement; we know them to be a
detriment to any community and
do not want them under theire
high or low license.
11. We are all heartily ia favor
of maintaining law and order
striving for the benefits of peace
harmony and united effort; we
deprecate anything that "leads to
separate our citizens into factions;
we desire good laws and pure
government the encouragement
of all public and private eater-
prises; making our town attractive
to those seeking homes and btis
ness locations; of all nfeans. for
educational and mora1
and
men-
tal improvement and of qualify-
ing ourselves in all ways.possible
for the statehood which we so
earnestly desire; and wd-aubmit
ourselves and this platform to the
wishes and will of the people of
our town.
M. Holderman bought a thor-
oughbred Hereford bull at the big
Hereford sale at Kansas City
Thursday. It was bred at Attica
Ind. and weighed 2020 pounds.
The Drovers Telegram says: "The
highest price bull was lot 1 the
three-year-old bull Gold Dollar
73652 a son of Earl of Shadeland
22nd 27147 and out of Lady Wil-
ton 5Sth 46355 a grand-daughter
of Lord Wilton 4057 and the Grove
3rd 2490. Individually Gold Dol-
lar ranks up with the few choicest
animals in this country and in
breeding doubtless has no superior
and but lew equals in the United
States. Such was the estimation
in which Gold Dollar was held
during the year 1S9S that he went
through the entire show rig cir-
cuit undefeated. M. Holderman
of Chetopa Kan. owner of Rust-
ler's ranch Indian Territory was
the lucky buyer at $S70. Some
judges before the sale opened pre
dicted that this great bull would
probably reach the $1500 mark
hence Mr. Holderman is to be
congratulated in having secured
him at the prico he did." The
animal Attracted much attention
on the streets here Tuesday and
is a grand addition to Mr. Holder-
man's already fine herd of Here-
ford's which is undoubtedly the
best in numbers and quality of any
in this part of the country. He
has 40 young bulls for sale at the
I presont time. Chotopa Democrat.
This office is in receipt of a great
number of enquiries as to whether
the Curtis law will be enforced in
the Cherokee nation. The only
intelligent answer we are able at
this time to give is that the Curtis
act is now the law of the land but
just how fully it will be enforced
by the courts we are not able to-
'say.
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