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TV
y INITA V
ELY CHIEFTAIN.
XU.
VINITA INDIAN TERRITORY. THURSDAY APRIL 28 1Q04.
NO. 35
ie Cherokee land office will open at Tahlequah flonday Maysecond at nine o'clock
HE
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TERR1FFIC
WINDSTORM
ructive Cyclone Sweeps
Country From Chouteau
to Fairland.
day afternoon one of t lie most
ijetlve storms known in the hlv
t thin count ry visited the wet Ion
immediately South and cast of
course of the storm was from
west to northeast the usual di-
ii of windstorm of a cyclonic
cter in thu Southwest.
day the atmosphere seemed sur-
ed with electricity and there
a general disturbance In the
'tis. Heavy rains came la the
oon and about one o'clock a reg-
1 wlster set In southwest of Chott-
some thirty miles south of thin
account of the telephone wire
down in many places It Is lmpos-
to get complete details of the
1.
far as is learned alxmt seven jr-
were killed outright and many
wounded.
IAt Tairland.
Fiflrlawl the storm seems to
1'ooen most severe. The killed in
I localit y are: Mr Mary Lamar
I tin south of Fairland.
I s John Lemastcr 4 mile south
i irland.
? ir months old Itaby of Mr. ami
J C'urt Jhxii 4 mile south of
j and.
I tiik inji uki).
j v John Ilal of Fairland Injured
iially jH-rliajis fatally.
5 tie draught '2 miles smith of
1. Imth leg and both arms
i n.
! ightcr'uf J. Hardin of Fairland
My Injured.
and Mrs. 4Wlle IVudergraiT and
ji of Fairland seriously Injured
j dling timbers.
p. and Mr. Curt Hoeh 4 in lien
J li of Fairland painfully Injured.
J :i and daughter of Ii holder of
j land badly bruised.
I Th Injured at Cleora.
jr. Russell broken libs. If is daiiii-
? 13 years old was Injured; thigh
en.
; liool teacher lady broken limb.
r. Keller sustained dangerous
' and bruise about the head
rs. J. 1. Thoma received severe
'. on face and head.
e girl of J. I. Thomas received
nil ugly cuts on the- Unite
vcral other people were Injured
ably fatally but the name are
known.
J Damage to Property.
iue damage to proerty is wide-
5 ad many farm houses and lrus
ig wrecked In the tra'k of the
m. which extended for fifty mile
ii Chouteau uptlrand river to Fair-
I and on northeast
.illow lug is a list of the property
agd and destroyed by the storm
is a nearly complete a can t
ii at this time.
' AT FA I It LAN f.
urns Fall F.levatorCo- top blown
uVlcvator building.
W. Vaiin hardware building' ui-
"ed arid west end torn out. -;
i's and machinery damaged.
W. Freeman front demcihd
leeman Xldifler. general nerchan-
j. ; good sllght'y damped
'...nner-Campliell Mer. general
'.chandlse furniture tKl machinery
second floor bad! damaged 'west
of building ton out and building
'f oofed.
n blaekvniM shop on the east (tide
U blown is piece ar.d the fronts of
1 or ht frame buildings In the
6 r wr blown out. The lum-
1 bo'' lb street was also
tly damage !
' e residence of R. Holder w as com-
ply demolished and the household
s carrii'l ewaj by the wind. No-
g UiuJ left to the now destitute
.' l.v. I
l residence of J. llardiu was
n ilnwjii and toni tit piece
he resilience of Wiley PendergrafT
badly 'damaged.
l!it uwenty other residence were
i. u'u several of them twiner rent
ml. it by the strong wind.
- ii( r.t.LANRir.
l tli k" - whose name It hu
(Yjjble to learn were killed
at Mose At kin's place near Chouteau
The house of Kd Lemastcr 4 miles
south of Fairland was completely de
molished and the household goods
scat t ered over t he count ry.
The residence of John (iray .'t miles
south of A ft on was damaged the
north end of the building being blown
ont and the furniture hodiy damaged.
The family escaped unhurt. Ill bam
wa blown down and small tenant
house carried away by t he storm Ills
orchard wa also badly damaged and a
wagon blown to pieces.
The barns of Tom Cox and Mr. Ken-
nedy South of Afton were blown
dow n and the house of Clint Hamilton
was moved from tho foundation.
llert Delay had a limb broken and
hi 12-year-old boy killed.
The property loss at Fairland 1 es-
timated at cvooo. No tornado In-
u ranee.
The old brick residence at the Wy
man Thompson farm on the east side
of (irand river was wrecked. HI
Wright's residence south of Pryor
Creek was dest royud and the family
saved by taking refuge in the cellar.
The Cole school house cist of Adair
was blown down.
On buck creek a numljer of barns
and dwelling were laid low and sev-
eral people crippled. 1 ie residence of
Jas. MeCamlsh was u.. wn down and
Mr. McCamlsh Injured.
In the neighborhood of W. II. Mor-
rison on the north side of Duck creek
there w a much destruction of prop-
erty and several people crippled.
The storm also did some damage at
Kctehum the residence and kirn be-
longing to Wyman Thompson being
blown down a were also a mimlier of
other building. No one hurt so far
a reported.
A Menace to tlie Eat Side.
The pet it ion signed by seventy resi
dent property owner of the F.asl Side
asking the city council to arrange for
pining the discharge from the septic
tank furtheraway lsln itself suillclent
to show that a mistake was made In
planning to have the reservoir so near
town even if all the sanitary require-
ments were being complied with which
they are not. I he following ijuota-
tioustjm the Kansas City Journal
teiU how it. done In Kansa:
"After the sewerage goes through
the bacterial and fermentation pro
cess In the septic tank the discharge
sewerage pa.vses to tlie contact lieds
and is oxidised by passing In a very
thin film over a wire selva toeoke and
gravel lds. These contact bed are
Ailed with particles of coke of such
size a to not pack or choke and so
arranged with alternating syphon for
tilling and time phons for emptying
that each one Is kept full for a eriod
of about three or four hour. This
act in a double capacity a specie of
bacteria work m the coke lust ert ice
tearing apart and dest roying the of-
fensive sewenige and an areoblc ac-
tion which flM k stop fermentation
rendering tie affluent tasteless and
odorless. To further purify the di
disclarge It l pnvsed through a filter
lied of ewtt-se gravel before being dis-
charged li .to t he rliarinel of the creek."
Kven tfter Roil g through all the
above pf icesse. ti e st ream has to lie
known .;o a prennial creek of large
volou'-'. otherwise thp whole discharge
has o m artificially destroyed.
The discharge directly from a sep-
tic tank s fdlvl with tterms of all
kl'd of dlseaws. The prores in the
tink only dest roja the be ny aewerage
nd this of Itself is a great scientific
.mention but only person of the
proKsest Ignorance will ay the water
U fit to drink directly as Is It flows
from tlie bacterial and fermentation
process and filter beds.
Another menace to the health of
those who live near the tank is tlat
once or t w Ice a year the residue or
Bewerage accumulating in the tank Is
to lie pasned out through a flo MM-
rilng from the bottom of the tank to
the creek so by flushing the tt'.k
from the mains all this tilth i aent
Into tlie creek.
In order to do justice to all this
tank should le located on Cabin Cre k
for there tH condltltm existing here
that no court or grand Jury could Ig-
nore should the matter tie properly
presented. At the least tlie hot
winds blowing directly off Hull creek
In summer would make the Fast Side
a very umiesirame j-eriton or the city
to live In. F. W. Ktkoit.
Ckattaaeeaa DraagUt'e Statement
Kobf J. Miller proprietor of the
Head House drug store of ChattaiKo-
ga Term. writes: "'iTere I more
merit in FoleCa Honey and Tar t han
In any other cough syrup. The call
fyrlt multiply wonderfully anu we
pell more of It than all other cough
ayrups combined." Sold by People 'a
drug rtore. dw
THE INDIANS
LOST MILLIONS
Why the Creeks and Cherokces
Will Not Vote the Repub-
lican Ticket.
The price that the Creek Indians
must pay for having Joined the Con-
fedraey in the civil war is twelve mil-
lion dollars' worth of land. This page
of Indian history Is brought to mind
by the rapid sale of laud by the Creek
fruedmen to the whites. It is an in
cident too in Indian history that
will have Its bearing on the future
voting of tho Indian. .
In the early days of tho civil war
both the Creek and the Cherokee gov-
eminent made alliance with the Con-
federacy. For natural reasons the
Indians were Southern sympathizer.
They were slaveholders.
When tho war closed the United
States government declared the old
treaties abrogated by reason of the
Confederate alliance and new treaties
were made. This was In Ismi. One
one of the provisions of this t reaty
was that thu ex-slave of the Indian
shoMld share equally w ith their ex-
masters in the tribal land and annui-
ties. This was bitterly opposed by
a majority of the Indians but they
were forced to It by a few of their
leaders who. signed the treaty with
the treaty commission.
In th! treaty the negro interpreter
played an important part and had it
not been for him It 1 probable that
ti e treaty would never have been
made. They represented to the com
mlssloncr that the Indians were will
lug to agree to matters pertaining to
the negroes alwajs to the benefit of
thu latter and on the other hand rep
resented to the Indians that certain
provisions were not so rigid a they
aflerward proved to l and thus the
treaty was signed.
The treaty has given 103 acres of
land to each ireeuinan and lliere are
5ooo of them making a total of Hot)
(sm acre of land worth 12 million
dollars. Tills land wa taken from
the Indians. They opposed it then
and oppose it now. In polities they
will oppose the negro and the party
that receive the negro vote will lose
that of the Indian. The fact that the
freedman secured the best land l still
an Irritating subject to the Indian.
In the ante-bellum days great planta-
tions were scattered all over the Creek
country. They were owned by edu-
cated halfbreeds who " were wealthy
and owned many slaves. They went
with the Confederacy and In the four
years of war their plantation were
ruined and their house burned. This
would not have deterred the auto-
cratic landlords but when they found
their ex-slave settled on the old plan-
tations claiming ownership and de-
manding eipial right and recognition
It was too much. They refused to ac-
knowledge equality and In nearly
every Instance left their old planta-
tions and went Into new country and
began over again. The negroes re-
mained and a t hair home were on
these rich and cultivated lands they
dilated and received allotment there.
The Sttdhams Melntoshes Marshall
Barnwell (irajsons and Porters and
hundreds of other Indian families lost
magtil flee tit land holdings in that way.
Tlie Cherokee freedmen received their
right In the same way and this too
In spite of the fact that at the U-gin-ning
of the war they had declared
freedom for theirslave. Kansas City
Journal.
Saw tke Cfeloae.
Captain Harrett and Iioyd Hamil-
ton visited at the country home of W
H. Morrison on thick creek Sunday
and were In sight of the utorm that
wrecked many houses and torn In
that locality. Mr Morrison' orchard
wa damaged as wa also a tenant
lions en (Jalther Chandler' place
nearby
to Jump upon tho cowcatcher when
his feet slipped and he fell under the
wheels and was ground to death In ar.
instant. The engine and baggage car
passed over the body which was cut
in two and mangled almost tjeyoud
recognition. Iloth arms were severed
from the body and the heart lungs
liver and other Internal organ were
strewn along the rail mie portions
not being found until tjils morning.
The remains were gathered up and
taken to Frazee's undertaking rooms
where Iir. C. P.. Orlfllth and Taylor
Crutchfleld placed tho particle to
gether a best they could. The body
of the unfortunate lad was then re
moved to the home of his mother on
north Vann street from which place
the funeral occurred Friday afternoon
Interment being made at the city cem
etery north of town.
Mrs. Minshal who is the widow of
the late John Minshal Is u Delaware
Jndlan and owns a fine farm a few
mile northwest of town.
C&ronto BronchltU Cored
"For ten years 1 had chronic bran
ching so bad that at times 1 could not
speak above a whisper" write Mr.
Joseph Coffman of Montmorencl Ind.
I tried all remedies available but
with no success. Fortunately my em
ployer suggested that I try Foley'
Honey and Tar. Its effect was almost
mlraculoiLsand I am now cured of tho
disease. On my rccommcndatlun ma
ny people have used Foley's Honey and
Tar. and always with satisfaction."
Sold by People's drug store. dw
INDIAN APPRO-
PR I ATI OH BILL
Salient Features of the Lattest
Deliverance of Congress
en Indian Matters.
DEATH LIST INCREASING.
Sunday' Tornado More Dettrnctiva
Than Wae at Tint Believed.
Additional reports from the section
cast of us through w hich the tornado
passed Sunday afternoon Indicate that
the result of the storm was even worse
than at first reiorted.
Six people were killed in the Chou-
teau vicinity and so far as reimrted
four were killed near Fairland while
a large number In different localities
along the pathway of the storm were
crippled and otherwise injured.
Mr. and Mrs John Abbott and two
children Hert delay's ii-year-old boy
and the 8-year-old daughter of Leo
Hitting were killed In the Chouteau
neighborhood. I
Dreadful Attack of Whooping Coaca
Mrs. F.lleii Harrison of 3oo lark
Ave. Kansas City Mo. write as fol-
lows: "Our two children had a severe
attack of whooping rough one of
them in the paroxysm of coughing
would often faint and bleed at the
nose. We tried every thing we heard
of without getting relief. We then
called In our family doctor who pre-
scribed Foley's Honey and Tar. With
the very first dose they began to Im-
prove and we feel that it has saved
their lives." Refuse substitutes. Sold
by People's drug store. dw .
Paden Tolbert Dead.
Net of the death Monday at Hot
Springs Ark. of l'aden Tolbert was
received here Tuesday mornlng.Mr.Tcl
bert lived in Vlnlta for several yearn
and was a debut United State mar-
shal mt of the time being at one
time cm idered one of the most effi-
cient mep on the fores. For the last
year or two he ha resided at Weleetka
and has held a deputy's commission
under Marshal Rennet t of the West-
ern district lie leaves. a wife and
two or three children.
A
SICKENING
TRAGEDY.
be Msagled a Kat Faoeeager
Ti ata Hera La.t Taandar Night.
Wa'.?r MInshall the 11-rear-old jam
of Mr F-iia illiishull wa killed by
the 1 21 K.ity passenger train at tho
ataUuis Thurhy evening Im a must
frightful nmmrr.
Th buy tu playing hi front of the
Incoming eng !iw and apparent! trying
Save the Loved Oaee t
Mrs. Mar? A. VHet Newcastle
Colo. write: "I believe Hallard's
Horeound Syrup Is superior to any
other cough medicine and will do all
that is claimed for It ami It I so
pleasant to take. My little girl wants
to take it when she has no need for
for It." Hallard's Horehound Syrup
is the great cure for all pulmonary
ailment. & and ll.W at People's
drug store. dw
Towatite laveettgatiow.
Joe M. Lahaj was here Monday en
mute to Tahlcuah to join Clarence
H. MeQuoln and other tnemliers of
the commission recently appointed to
! Investigate T. A. Chandler the last
' town commissioner under the Chero-
kee government.
Herbtao Car
Fever and ague. A de will usually
tcp a chill a continuum- always
cures. Mrs. Wm. M. Stroud Midlo-
thian Texas May 31 1.3. writes:
"We bate used Herblne In our family
for eight jears and found it the !et
medicine we have ever used for la
grippe billlou fever and malaria."
f at Peoples drug store. dw
For salaries of four commissioners
appointed under acts of emigres ap-
prcvedrMarch 3rd lM.i:? and March 2nd
J'.i: to negotiate with tho Five Civil-
ized Tribes in the Indian Terrlnorr
twenty thousand dollars and si Id com-
mission shall conclude Its work and
terminate on or before the first day of
July Phi5 and said commission shall
cease to exist on July first lSiO.') Pro
vided That said commission shall ex
ercise all the powers heretofore coi
ferred upon It by congress: And pro
vided further That the Secretary of
the Inferior Is hereby g-anted author
Ity to sell at public sale in tracts riot
exceeding one hundred and sixty acres
to any one purchaser under rti!f and
regulations to be made by the Secre-
tary of the Interior for residue of land
in the Creek Nation belonging to the
Creek tribe of Indian consisting of
about five hundred thousand acres and
being tlie residue of lands leit over
after allotments of one hundred and
sixty acres to each of said tril. And
all the restrictions upon the alienation
of land of all allottees of either of
tlie Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
who are not of Indian blood except
minors are except as to homesteads
hereby removed and all restrictions
upon the alienation of ail other al-
lottees of said tribes except minors
and except as to homestead. may.
with the approval of the Secretary of
the Interior 1 removed under such
ru)e- and regulations a the Secretary
of the Interior may prescribe upon
application to the I'nited States In-
dian Agent at the Union Agency in
charge of the Five Civilized TrlUs.
lT said agent Is sati-slied upon a full in-
vestigation of each Individual csc that
such removal of restriction is for the
best interest of wid allottee. The
finding of the United States Indian
agent and the approval of the Secre-
tary of the Interior fclall be in w riting
and shall be recordded In tlie same
manner a patents for land are re
corded
Expenses for commissioners . A ne-
cessary expends of employes; for
clerical help Including secretary of
the commission and Interpreters tlX'-
2!. contingent expenses of the com-
mission IJ.OoO: Provided further.Tliat
this appropriation may 1 used by
said commission In the prosecut Ion of
all work to be done br or under It
direction a required by law; In a!)
r.Vi.i.n.'i.
That 10 proceedings heretofore had
with repet-t to allotment In the
Cherokee. Nation shall lw held invalid
on the ground that they were lad be-
fore there was authority to begin the
work of allotment in said nation: Pro-
vided That nothing herein shall 1
construed as validating any filings
heretofore made on land fc'gregitl
for the Delaware Indians.
To complete the townsite appraise-
ment and survey in the Indian Ter-
ritory t2:ooo: Provided That said
work shall be completed on or liefore
July first nineteen hundred and live.
To carry out the provision of sec-
tion ten of the supplemental agree-
ment with the Creek Nation and
section thirty-seven of the Cherokee
agreement 110.0ml.
For the purre of placing allottees
in the Indian Territory hi possession
of their allotments to be expended
under the direction of the Secretary
of the Interior thirty thousand dol-
lar: Provided That no portion of the
money herein appropriated for the In-
dian Territory shall 1 paid to any
person In the service of tlie United
State until such person tlall make
oath that he has no financial interest
with any person or corporal ton dealing
in Indian lands in the Indian Terri-
tory. That the Ikiaware-Chernkeeclt liens
who have made Improvements or are
In rightful possession of such Improve-
ment a in the Cherokee Nation at the
time if the passage of this act shall
have the right to first s l.-t from a!d
i Improved lands their allotments and
thereafter for a period of it months
shall liave the rl-ht to wll the Im-
provements upon their surplus hold-
ing of lands to other citizens of the
Cherokee Nation entitled to select al-
lotment at the va'uatlori to 1 ap
proved by an official to I designated
by the president for that purpose; and
the vendor shall have a lien upon the
rent and profit of the land on which
the Improvement are located for the
purchase money remaining unpald;and
the vendor shall have the right to en-
force such lien any court of competent
Jurisdiction. The vender may how-
ever elect to take and retain the. pos-
session of the land at. a fair cash rent-
al to 15 approved by t ho official so as
aforesaid designated fmtll such rental
shall be sufficient to satisfy the unpaid
purcha.se price and when the purchase
price is fully paid lie shall fort with
deliver possession of the land to the
purchaser: Provided however That
any crop then growing on the land
shall be and remain the nrooertv of
the vendor and he may have access to
the land so long a may be necessary
to cultivate and gather such growing
crops. Any such purchaser shall
without unreasonable delay apply to
select as an allotment the land upon
which tho Improvement purchased by
him are located and .shall submit with
hi application sat isfactory proof that
he has In good fait h purchased such
improvement..
For clerical work and labor connect-
ed with the sale and leasing of Creek
and the leasing of Cherokee lands
fourteen thousand dollars.
That the Secretary of the Interior
be and h is hereby authorized and
directed to pay to the Intruders in the
Cherokee Nation Indian Teiritofy
who have not heretofore for any rea-
son been paid the amounts dun them
by appraisements heretofore made- for
Improvements such payment to 1
made out of funds now at tlie disposal
of the Secretary of the Interior for
such purpose.
Dawe Commluloa Employe Resign
FJward Merrick and John CI. Lielr
wno nave U-en In the employ of tlie
hawes commission fur several years
have resigned their positions to en-
gure In the practice of law.
Mr. Lieber has lieeii in charge of tho
land contest work cf the I'awes com-
mission f.r the last four jear and
praef'ced law at Muskogee prior to his
employment by the commission. Ho
is rot unknown to tlie older members
of the bar In Indian Territory.
Mr. Merrick formerly practiced law
in Iilinois where he made a specialty
of real estate law. He has been a k
clerk in the land contest wor1' of the
I awes commission for the past three
year.
Mev.rs. Merrick and Lieber are
thoroughly fanpliar with the decisions
In land contest case and they will
therefore make a s(iaity of con-
ducting this class of suits and all
ot'icr suits Involving lands before the
Interior department and Its various
branches in the Indian Territory.
They will devote their t ime exclusively
to real estate law and to the examina-
tion of land titles. Their ota are
In rooms 115 and llrt Old Homestead
building Muskogee Ind Ter.
Vlalta Ma.io Cluo.
On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Sam F.
Parks and Miss Rrowtilng entertained
the Vinita Music club by giving a
Spring recital at the home of Mis
Frowning. Tlie programme were
unique hand paintings by Mrs. Parks
of spring flower typifying the advent
of spring. All of t he selection were
"Spring." In addition to members of
the club the guest were Mrs. F.radl
Hill and Shelton. CotTee and cakes
were served.
The S.qaojah Clafc.
Tlie la meeting of the Sequoyah-
club wa held with Mta Ryrd on Sat-
urday afternoon April 2X Mrs. 0 111
lead the discussion. Klla Wheeler Wil-
cox being the) writer studied. The
paper read by Mrs. Gill was a most in-
teresting one and the sub-topics were
all well rendered. The club will meet
May 7th with Mrs. lavldvm. James
Lane Allen and his writings will be
discussed. Tlie program folli.w:
1 His early life.
2 A a man.
3 HI success as a novelist.
4 His sens of humor.
5 Ills purity of thought style and
diction.
J fie sinnt or ker.timL
frayed by Allen.
7 Sketch of "The lUign uf La"
t The preacher and fie stnry writer;
How James Lan Alien combines
tlie two in "The R.eign ef Law"
and which is the more ttl : I ve.
B Tim home ltj a depleted itj
"Aftermath."
10 Headings from "Choir Invisible."
11 Headings from "The Mettle or the
Pastlve."
12 Itesrrlptlve readings from ."Ken-
tuck f Cardinal."
San as por-
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