The Indian Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 49, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 2, 1900 Page: 2 of 6
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Do You Know The Date
OF THE JUMBO ANNIVERSARY SALE?
It's Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday August 8 9 10 and 11.
You watch our finish. Already some of our so-called competitors are giving us some free advertising. We thank them because
a firm don't have a successful clearance sale on account of no.t doing as they advertise they think all. other sales are fakes x ou
watch our finish. It was impossible for us to mention all our mammoth bargains in last ad. See Our big ad and read these:
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Wo intond to havo this clothing department of ours
crowded from morn till night. x
30 dozon mon's cassinuro pttnts sold all ovor VinUa
for 1.00 and l.fiO ; they all go at GOcpair.
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1 udian Chieftain.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
il.bO Per Yoar. or SI.OO If Paid
In Advance.
rubllihtiiThartilaTi by
fill UlllKfTAlK rullllllIKn COHfAMT.
'i. 31. if.UtltS Editor and I'unlUhcr
Vinita Ikd. Tun. Aug. 2 1000
About the only sufferers from
tlio enforcement of tho tribal tax
law is tho haymen and tbey nru
tho close least ablo to stand it.
Jamoa Fitzgerald a son-in-law
of J. J. McAlester of McAlcetor
was struck by a bolt of lightning
and killed at Little Rock Sunday.
Ho wae in the employ of the Choc-
taw railway.
If tho lawa of the Cberokeo no-
tion have been abolished then tho
national council should bo dis-
solved as there is no authority for
calling it together and no legality
in its acts.
Eighty thousand mulos and
lioraes have been received at tho
St. Louis market during the last
seven months. It is a record
breaker. It U an average of 11428
per month and on a basis of 137-
000 a year.
And now what haB become of
the $50000 appropriation made by
penses ol tho smallpox in the In-
dian Territory last winter. Is it
possiuie me lunu is 10 oe wunneiu
indefinitely?
Census enumerators in the In-
dian Territory have been surprised
at the alacrity with which Indian
women give their ages. One worn
an down in the Choctaw nation
admitted shyly that she was one
Jiu d rod yearB old.
-The amount of money placed to
tho credit of the Cherokee nation
collected by the agents of the in-
terior department would be a
mighty good item of news. If J.
George Wright will furnish it the
Chieftain will print it where the
whole Cherokee nation can read it.
. If t It 0 voice of the Cherokee nn-
liuriul council ia to bo listened to
ue rttpreHfiitlng the view of the
Cherokee people it would seem
thai they want the revenues col
lected. One of the lust nctB of the
IhhI cession wai a rexoluiinn favor-
iug lint collection of the revenues
by tho interior department.
A Ivan hub City paper says that
A line of railway is to be built from
Jnplin to Vlnilu by way ol Gulena
WhUhJC.jutt will lap a rich flection
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Clothing.
Lot 1 choicb of any man s suit in
our houso ; thisx includes our 12.50
18.00 and 20.00 suits for 10.00.
Lot 2 men's 600 and 7.J0 suits
all styles go at 3.07.
Men's 10.00 and 8.00 suits go in
this salo at ono prico 6.50.
Lot 1-105 boys linon suits at 41c.
Lot 1809 boys linon suits fancy
stripo go at 50c.
Lot 741-1 men's linon suits coat
vest and pantsold at 3.00 go at 2.00.
Mon's pants sold at 1.50 and 2.oo
now go at 1.2J.
Mon's pants good stylos sold at
2.oo and 2.5o go at 1.G5.
Mon's pants fino dross pants sold
for 3.oo 3.Jo and 4.oo go at 2.Jo.
of the Indian Territory traversing
both agricultural and oil lands.
Thee extenniouR may all be com-
pleted within the next two years.
The long lapse of time between
the regular sessions of court at Vi-
nita this year will have a tendonpy
to accumulate a vast amount of
business both civil and criminal
that cannot be reached and die
posed of at one tern. This year
wo have had practically no court
as the January term was adjourn-
ed on account of the smallpox
scare in the middle of tho first
week.
The Claremore Progress ia sur-
prised that the Chieftain would
print an elaborate account of a
Sunday ball game after opposing
Sabbath desecration. Tho Chief-
tain will print the news regardless
of the time of its happening as
any good nowspapor would do. It
would give an accout oi a wreck
a firo or a murder if committed on
Sunday and by so doing would cot
wish to encourage it. The Chieftain
is in no way responsible for Sun-
day ball playing but will not fail
to give a full account even though
they be pulled off on the Sabbath.
A faithful record of the news is
the Cbioftain'a hobby.
It ia one thing for congress to
make laws for the Indian Terri-
tory and quite another for a corps
ol clerks in tho department at
Washington to construe them and
lay down rules for their applica-
tion which destroy whatever good
effect they originally intended.
In passing law. if congress could
adopt the plan of tho old man who
made his will in which ho be-
quetbed everything to his wife
and forbade others from putting a
finger in the pie it would havo an
exceedingly wholosome effect.
There has been plenty of legisla-
tion for the settlement of Indian
Territory a flairs if we could have
it applied as tho makers intended.
It is the red tape and not the laws
that aro a burden to the people.
The Dawes commission is now
hard ai work. Of courso every-
body is asking himself as to what
is to be his own fate before that
tribunal. Many who have been
heretofore hopelul will be disap-
pointed. Ah to the fullbloods
whoso status in general has noth-
ing to make it questionable there
needs lo he little apprehension.
Din umong the intermarried cit-
izens' whose right is a mere mat-
ter of technical law there is pretty
certain to bo no lltlltt uncertainty
and occasion for anxiety. Among
Shirts.
Mon's Monarch shirts Jumbo storo is tho only storo-in
Vinita that had this season's stylos in Monarch shirts.
Wo sell thorn in this salo at 75c ; thoy novor sold for loss
.than l.oo and 1.25.
All tho Monarch shirts worth l.tfo and 2.oivf.l"irl7.
12o dozon men's samplo shirta: in this lot you n ill
find silk front shirts fancy madras shirts vrth cvrry-
whoro l.oo oach. Soo thorn for yoursolf at 96c. .
Boys' fino shirts at same prico.
Neckwear. ' -; .
Our manager bought 2oo dozen necktiosjhalvcro
samples. Think of this. ylgj
2o dozon mon's whito band bow ties sold at 25c al-
ways ; never loss ; nothing moro stylish j you buyHn3nTn1
15c a dozon. bco them.
2o dozen men's 4-in-haud
you cot them at G for loc.
Gonts' silk string ties go at 5c each.
Our 25c tios go at loc. Our 3Jc and Joe ties go at 19c.
Our 5oc 75c and l.oo tios go at 39c.
Alen's Hats.
Wo cannot doscribc our entire lino of hats so wo havo
TELL ALL YOUR NEIGHBORS TO COME.
our mixed blood citizens too there
is destined to be some perplexity
and difficulty owing to the fuel
that it is among this class of our
people that sprang up thoso ad-
venturous spirits who deemed tho
Indian home too narrow a place
lor their enterpriBO and went
abroad and spent the better por-
tion of their lives in the states in
pursuit of wider and belter op-
portunities. Many of this class
have allowed their right to Cher-
okoe citizenship to become clouded
by their sojourn abroad and it re-
quired some effort on their part to
clear up their claims.
Wo have been informed that
''the secretary of the interior has
authorized and directed the Indian
agent and Special Agent Wright
both located at Muskogeo to enter
into a contract with any responsi-
ble person or corporation for the
purchase of timber or atone from
any public lands within tho terri-
tory of tho five civilized tribes."
Wo do not question the power of
the honorable secretary to do this
but his moral or legal right to do
it is wholly we submit without
foundation. This territorial ques-
tion is said to be and it really is
a complicated problem. But who
has made it so? These Indians
have not donoit. They have been
all the timo in the bands of the
government like clay in the hands
of the potter. The government
has bad it all her own way. If
there is any difficulty in tho mat-
ter anything wrong anything un-
just or absurd the government
has donn it. One thing however
is certain: If the government liad
always dealt with tiie question ac-
cording to law and tho treaties
with these tribeB there never
would have been any complication
in the question.
Henry Vann U More Than Half Shot.
Mention was mado about two
weekn ago of an attempt on the
part of aomo ono to burglarize
Superintendent Benedict's resi
dence onChorok6e street. It was
also Mated that Mr. Benedict by
quick actjon fired a load of shot at
the disappearing burglar. Last
Saturday night Henry Vann was
arrested at Wagoner and brought
to Muikoaeo jail charged with rob
bery. Yesterday it was discover
ed that Vann was punctured by
about frty fino shot scattered from
the pit of his left arm down to the
knee on tho left leg. Mr. Bene
diet stilted to a Time scribe that
ho used No. 10 shot and from the
fioslllon ol (he icsu when he fiiod
10 mid no doubt that Vann is the
man who mado the attempt to loot
his residence Muskogee Times
tios in
lawns andirions ;
JUMBO STORE
THE HOLY SPIRIT.
The Bible Conception of the
Holy Spirit.
"And I will pray tho Fathor
and he fhnll give you another
comforter that He may abide with
you forever." This is Christ's
promise to his diciples. In verso
2G of John's gospel and 11th chap-
ter we are told that this comforter
is tho holy spirit. In tho lGth
chapter his work is specified; vs.
8-1-1. While raul was in Ephesus
ho found certain diciples; certain-
ly nono of the original twelve
thorefore tho promise of the Holy
Spirit embraced all who believe in
Christ and 1b applicable today.
To them ho said "Have you re-
ceived the Holy Spirit since you
believed?" who answered .;We
have not so much as heard wheth-
er tho Holy Spirit is" that is has
come. Paul upon ono occasion
said: "I thank God that I bap
tised none of you but Criapus and
Oaius: 1 Cor. 1 14; read also
verses 15-17. He considered tho
preaching oi the Gospel the cross
and crucifiction tho important
truths to be emphasized. He also
laid great stress upon tho receiv-
ing of the Holy Ghost.
What wo need ie to get tho bible
conception of the Holy Spirit.
Ho is God Peter in rebuking
AnnaniaR says: "Why hath Satan
filled thine heart to lie to tho Holy
Goat. Thou hast not lied unto
men but unto tho Holy Ghost."
Tho Holy Ghost convicts of ain
and he reveals Jesus Christ. 'Ho
shall glorify mo for he shall re-
ceive of mine and shall shew it
unto you."
How is tho Holy Spirit received?
By faith. See Gnl. 3.2 Faith in
the word and work of JeBtia Christ.
Peter preached to tho peoplo of
Galatia that Christ had borne
their sine in His o-n body on the
cross. They recoived his test!
mony believed it and know that
they had (pesent tense) salvation
tho lorgiveneBs of sins. Their
knowledgo and belief both rosted
upon the word of God And God
owned tho testimony by Betting to
it Hie seal and giving them tho
Holy GhoBt in power for seice;
Acts 19-0. The blood of ChflsUa
the believer title. "NomT In
Christ Jesus ye who soinetlmos
were afar off aro made nigh by the
blood pf Chriut."
The believers access tb'Uie Fa-
ther is by tho spirit.
In Romans 8 9 11 tharo nro
Ibreo great subjects presented
dee'ded to inako ono prico ou r.ll: a discount of 2o por
cent ; see them.
Dry Goods Dress Goods.
Romombor choico any dress calicoes wo havo 4c yd.
Short longth calicoes Simpson's best 3c yd.
Mill ond calico sold by otliors at 5c ; our prico 1c yd.
Don't miss tho lino of fancy wash goods wo show at 5c.
Finest dimities loc yd.
Como sco thoso : Plain and knotted fringod whilo
bod spreads sold at 1 5o go at 1 oo.
And look nt thoso : 2o dozon ladies' fans in this lot
sold at from lo to Joe go at 5c each.
Ladies' fino silk fans : Look at tlicso : Fans that
sold for l.Jo all go at 25c.
Sample Lines of Hosiery.
Ladies' Misses children's and mon's Jioso at 5c pair;
worth up to 2oc pair. Ladies' Misses children's and
mon's samplo hoso worth up to 5oc pair go at 15c pair.
Toilet Soap.
Samplo lino toilet soap. All that mado us buy it
cheap was many of tho cakes woro unwrapped. You will
Christian character and standing
(not in the flesh lutlti the spirit).
Christian experience and Christ
ian privileges.
The life of tho beliover ia the
life of Christ and ovory true bo-
lievrw ia Hid welt by tho Holy Spir-
it. In Romans 0 3 -1 the Apostle
speaks of the baptism ol thn be-
liover by tho Holy Spirit into tho
mystical body of Christ and mado
froe from the flesh free from the
law our old Adamic standing lost
because Christ died to deliver us.
Therefore we are buried with
Christ by the baptism of the Holy
Spirit unto death; that like as
Christ was raised up from the
dead (resurrection) by the glory
of the Father even bo we should
also walk in newness of life for if
wo havo been planted together in
the likeness oi hie death wo shall
be also in the likeness of his res-
eurrection." Read John M 14 17 for tho abid-
ing and the abode of tho Holy
Spirit.
Only test. "If any man have
not the spirit of Christ ho is none
of His."
How is the spirit to bo obtained?
Answer by faith. K.
To Aid the Dawes Commission.
Washington July 27 Secretary
Hitchcock has docidod to aid the
Dawes commission in its work a-
raonc tho five civilized tribeB by
giving governmental recognition
nnd advantages first to thoso tribes
which agree to treaties with tho
commission.
Acting on this plan tho Interior
department will not permit the
laying out and survey of townsites
in tho Cherokee nation until the
Chnrokees have treated with the
Dawea commission and the troatv
has been finally ratified by con-
gress. Instructions to this effect
havo beon sent to J. George
Wright U. fj. Indian inspector for
tho Indian Territory.
It has also been decided to allot
tho lands of tho Wiohita reserva
tion as soon as tho alloling agentB
now at work in tho Kiowa Com-
anche and Apache reservations
have concluded tboir work.
i Thin will mean that tho surplus
land in tho two great reservations
'will be thrown open to settlement
at tho same time. In the Wichita
reuorvation it is estimated that
there will bo at leant 350000 acres
of good agricultural Innda for set-
Mere when the reservation is
ihrown open to settlement.
104 YEARS OLD.
Colored Centenarian Discov-
ered at Catoosa.
Catoosa I. T. July 31.
Editor Chieftain:
Your correspondent reads in
Beveral papers where a census
enumerator in Choctaw nation
found a woman who was 100 years
old. Now tho regulations pro-
hibit an enumerator from giving
out any such information. But
horo at Catoosa resides a colored
man William Vann who was
born at or near Norfolk Va. in
1790 making him now 104 years
old. He was sold to a fllavo trader
bound to Now OrleanB at tho ago
of 19 and ho has tho original bill
of salo which waa given him by
his master who bought him on the
block in Now Orleans. This bill
reads nB follows:
"I Abram Britt havo this 20th
day of February in tho year of our
Lord 1815 sold to Alexander
Broraell ono black boy 19 years
old height 5 feet 9 inches weight
175 pounds. Name Billy Vann
ior which horeby acknowledge
receipt of $1200 in currency oi
continental congress of tho United
StalOB of America.
Signed Ad ham Bum.
Undo "Billy" ia in good health
and smokeB his homo grown to-
bacco planted hoed and cured by
ilia own hand.
ROPING CONTEST
Bort Oskison Captures First
Prize In 50 Seconds
As an offsot to the failure and
disappointment of tho Woodloy plo
nic Vinita gave a free toping con-
test at tho college campus yester-
day afternoon that was exciting
enough to satisfy the most fastid-
ious oattle man on the range and
afforded an entortainmont that
waa very near perfect in its line.
Tho grounds whore the contest
took place wero splendidly eultod
to tho occasion. About 50 acres of
smooth opon prairie that had been
mown two or three weeks and
tho grass was up just high enough
to make a beautiful green sward
with a gentle elope to tho oast nnd
without o ireo or shrub or break
of any kind to mar the scene.
About 15 high bonded longhnrnod
Texas steers woro driven into the
arena about 5 o'clock and corralled
nn tho oulsklrlH Fifteen cowboys
rodo leisurely into thecampua and
lined up fronting the long line of
find many 25c cakes in this lot. Wo soil it 2 cakes Gc.
Fancy Colored Underskirts.
Wo bought largo lino colored undorskirts. Got too
many. Soil you skirt that sold 2 for $1.
Writing Paper in Boxes.
Papor and envelopes. Wo bought samplo liffo of
largo oastorn houso. Wo sell you box papor and envel-
opes worth up to 2Jc per box Jc por box. Paper and on-
volopos you cant buy loss than 35c to Joe box go at loc box.
Groceries.
Some moro interesting prices : It was impossiblo for
us to includo all tho bargains in last wcok's issuo of tho
papor. Tho following prices nro good for salo day only.
Wo aro headquarters for harvest supplies. Our stock is
all fresh and wo will savo you money :
2 lb packago rolled oats at 5c.
25 oz K. 0. baking powdor at 19c.
1 lb packago Jupitor soda 5c 0 for 25.
Gallon pails of syrup 33c.
Bring us your country produco ; will always pay you
highest market prices.
Tdlophono No. 21.
buggies carrages traps phaotons
with a numerous sprinkling of
equestrians and pedestrians and
the snapping ol cameras all along
tho lino indicated that something
moro enduring of tho occasion
than mere memory would be pre-
Borved.
Tho following cowboys cntored
tho conteet and drew numbers for
thou turns at the roping: Bert
Odkison Jim Rider Jim Hopkins
Will Rogers Heber Skinner Spy
Trent John Weir Joo Knight and
nnd Alex Franklin. John Frank-
lin and Roht. L. McCluro were
eeloctod as timekeepeis and W.E
Halsoll as judge. Sam Cobb and
Jim Walker cut tho steers out
from the bunch and turned them
singly into tho open the
cowboys dashed in according
to number and tho work began.
BertOskieon won tho first premium
$25 roping and tying his steor in
50 seconds. Second money $15
was won in 58 seconds by Jim
Hopkins and Alex Franklin won
third in 01 seconds. Protty near-
ly overybody in Vinita nnd largo
numbers from tho country turned
nut to see tho contest and the
streets af the town wero well nigh
. deserted whilo it was in progress.
Heber Skinner came in three sec-
onds of being a winner nnd was
considered ono of the most skillful
ropemon in the bunch.
A Doit Aolnr.
Tlie playof "Jloblmon Cruioc" U now
glren In ono of tho I'arli theater J with
four nnlmnli In the caat ot nctori.
Theae ore a gont.n monkey a paroquet
and chief ot all a do" iv)o en-
acti tho part of Ttohlmon'a faithful
companion. "Toby." Th dog'a real
name Ji 1'uro nnd n writer la La Ka
tore inyi he l respond to that name
only vlien In the itrcet orntliliinai
tcr home but bn thoitagehearuwert
promptly the call" "Xobv." hen Jtob'
Inton shooti n bird "Toby" rum and
picks It up climbs up n ladder Inloltob-
losun'i hut nnd gives the bird to "Fri-
day" who nets as cook.
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She Oat lllra.
MIih Uptodntc I think I should Ilk
to be the wife of a mm with n chance
to be president.
Mr. Cndet (coyly throwing hlccself
on her neck) Oh dnrllng but this
Is so soddrnl Knnsai City Star.
t Japanese wedding Is nlwojs n cere-
monious function nnd that of the
crown prince of tho empire Yoshlhlto
Itarunomiya to l'rlnceis 6adn Knljo
was one of tho most brilliant erer wit-
nessed nt tho capital. Tho prlnco soya
foreign pnper was not th41rst born
of the family hot hy the death of an
elder brother became heir to the
thronr. Ho WM born August 31 18TD.
Ills brldo Is Imt 16 years old Is the
prince's cousin nnd comes from ono ot
tho oldest families In tho empire. Her
genealogical tree dates ba k to A. p.
MO but her foiinir husband's femiT
records nre 1 "W ars o)J-r
PATHOS OF PROSPERirrTr
Illustration of the Vanity of
Human Attainments.
U was nn tho 27th of July I laid
alone in tho bewilderment of sick-
ncss and fever watching the shad-
ows of sunBbine gradually chanao
from west to east until thoir at-
tenuated forms marked the close of
a beautiful day. Tho cool exhil-
orating breezo of ovening restored
tho lolhargio poonlo to activity
and animated tho streets and parks
with podestrians and equestrians
buggios and bicycles. It was at
this revival timo that a friend
poBscd by and kindly invited mo f
to lido with him. Wo drovo '
through the crowded streets to tho '
south suburbs noting the eleganco .
and beauty of newly built homes .
after wn had left the homogeneous
routino of busy city sceneB and
reached that aristocratic location
6f magnificent mansions known as
Roanoke all new all modern and .
as grand as money and men could
make them with tho original picS
turesqueness of nature Ttr
boautiful boulevards tho bloom-
ing flowers and foreBt trees per-
meated with the perfume of near
by gardens and grain fields tho
soft south wind laden with sweet
ness and freshness mado it one of
thoBe charming tranquil places wo
love to look and lingor upon ono
ol those beautiful places that bo- '
speaks luxury and loveliness and '
appeals nllko to ones pride and ad
miration.
Passing from ono palatini home
to another enraptured by their
completeness and attractiveness
until we confronted tho boautiful
stono mansion corner of Thirty-
fifth and Main where it seemed
(bat man's highest earthly glory
had beon accompliebed. I said to
my companion how boautiful nnd
substantial for nothing but an
oarthquako or tho cycles of timo
can destrjy thle; but oh how
ephemeral is tho life a man!
Tide morning's Kansas City
Times contained tha sad announce
ment that Robert L. Taylor had
died on a Central Pnclfio railroad
train far from homo whilo travel
ing for his litalth and that his
fino houso at Thirty-fifth and Main
would no more bo enjoyed by hlmJ Jff
And this Is the sadness of nsuS'
oessful lilo the suggestion of tlio &
heading of these lines '
F. L. Dkckkh.
Kansas City July 28 1900
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