The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 167, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1899 Page: 3 of 4
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DRUGSTORE
When anyone adult
dr child enters bur
Mrug store we feel in
duty Ixmnd to ac-
cord : them uniform
.treatment the child
the same as the
grown person and
give td both the best
service in our power.
This is what has
made popular the
PEOPLE'S
DRUG
STORE
Our methods have
-t made us a good many
customers and our
medicines have made
a good many sick
' 4 people well thanks
m a measure to the
skill of the physician
who wrote the pres-
4 cription. : If you like
our service and our
methods we want
your business.
PHOTOGRAPHS..
Without
SkyIight.
Everyonelhat has ever
been through a first-class
modern studio knows that
the "skylight" is a relic
of fifty years ago. All the
'bent photographers of the
country aeknowlege their
preference for side-light
as with it they are able to
produce results superior
to the old style skylight.
All latent novelties from
50c per doz. up at the
Crescent Studio
C. H. TAYLOR & CO.
Collection and Real Es
tate agents. Will sell rent
or exchange farms and
other property.
W
ORTMflN....
will o it t'a gtlrx t-i you r
ptow vl sh n your hordes
r:in. S j him Hrnt.
-Shop South of Hotel Cobb.
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HAS. W.DAY D. D. 8.
DENTIST
Gold crown and bridge work
A Specialty.
Office orer First Nf Itank.-VINITA I.T
Legal Blanks
The following kinds of approved form
on Mle at
The Chieftain
Office or sent by mall t prices numi.
Ohnttel mortgages per dot Sftc
Cherokee deed. " Sflc
Chattel Mort. sales " &c
Lien notes (a mortgage) per dos Ve
Hills sale. ' toe
Kill Sale (Cherokee Mort) per dot... c
Hills Bale short form ...Wc
Kenewal amdarlu ...Vm
frommlssorjr notes per SO 5c
Receipts v gsc
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET
OF ST. LOUIS.
. The St. Louis National
Stock -0. Yards.
Located at East St. Loots 111.
Directly opposite the elty of St. Louis. Boy-
trs for all description of Lira Stock always in
ltndne and within the ironnds or the
Stock Ysrdi Is a Beef Csnnlsg Company with
a capacity for alaogbtlrlnir. S.OoOhead of osttle
dai!? and Pork Packing establishments have
capacity for slanghtering louo bogs dally.
CO. KNOX Vc-Prt.
CH:IJ..'T. " : "1 f yet. " "
BRUIN ON A COWCATCHER
r V i. :(j ' - - y ' '''t' J ..
After HH Cot Off Tli era Was jf jumW'
"' . ' Bear Hunt. . ' :. .
Not long ago as a railroad train
was passingthrough -Wilder's cut
near piciit JXun Pa. the engineer
was astonished to see a black beat
coming around a sharp curve' The
cut is so narrow that there is hardly
room for a man to stand aside and
allow an engine to .pass without
striking him.
Bruin was more amazed than the
engineer. Instead of stepping aside
he reared on his haunches and await-
ed events. The locomotive was run.-
ning less than 20 miles an hour for
the place is a dangerous one ' Upon
seeing the hear the engineer shut erf
steam and applied the brakes but
the distance wastoo short to escape
an accident. The cowcatcher slid
under the hind legs of the brute and
lilted him off the ground.
Thinking all trouble was over the
engineer put on steam once more
while the fireman climbed out' of the
cab window and stole along tha
guard rail to find out what hud be-
come of the bear. He was there
claBping the cowcatcher the lower
part of his body just grazing the
ground and his head almost reaohJ
ing tne bottom of the headlight.. Be
eeemed to understand that the only
thing he could do was to hold fast
and he did so during the run to the
next station ten miles distant. The
station agent was standing at the
depot door as the train approached.
The Sight of a full grown bear on
the cowcatcher fairly took away his
breath. '
As soon as the engine came to a
standstill bruin slipped from bis
perch and made a break for free-
dom. This took him straight toward
the agent who dashed through the
door slammed it shut leaped
through the rear door and went up
the street at a furious rate1 calling
out: "Bearl Bear! Somebody get
a gun I"
Soon the town was in a turmoil a
yelling crowd following in hot pur-suir-of
the bear some of the boys
pelting him with stones. Suddenly
a big shepherd dog bounced out of
a yard and (lushed after the bear.
Bruin paused but a minute or two
but when he passed on the rash dog
had no future interest in the pro-
ceedings. At the street corner a lawyer car-
rying a double barreled gun came
face to face with the boar but the
latter turned down the nearest alley.
The crowd increased and encircled
the frightened animal making es-
cape impossible. Finding himself at
bay bruin backed up' against the
barn rearing on his haunches. The
lawyer 6ent two bullets into the
bear whereupon the wounded ani-
mal charged the crowd. One urchin
fell was trampkd upon and had a
leg broken. The lawyer slipped an-
other bullet into his gun and sent
the shot through bruin's head and
finished him.
By this time the engineer and fire-
man recalled the fact that a train-
load of passengers were waiting at
the station and hurried baok and re-
sumed their official duties after a
bear hunt of about 20 minutes. Bos-
ton Transcript.
Mary's Little Lamb.
The one singlo contribution of
note that America has made to this
never dying literature of Childhood
is the true story of "Mary and Her
JJttle Lamb." Perhaps it is because
of its truth that it has taken such a
strong hold upon the popular fancy I
for some of the verses are crude j
enough writteiTas they were by
young John Rollston a boy student
at the same Massachusetts school at-
tended 70 years ago by Mary and
her devoted pet But the poem was
completed long after the demise of
the sheep by Mrs. Sarah Hall a
quite celebrated.author. That its ad-
mirers are legion was shown at a
fair in Boston bb many will remem-
ber. A stocking knitted from tha
woven fleeoe of the -famous lamb
was raveled out and pieces sold
with the autograph of Mary then an
aged lady attached and so great
was the demand that $140 was thug
won for the Old South ohurch.
Agnes Carr Sage in Lippincott'a.
And Candy For Sale.
"Here " said Benny's papa show
ing the little fellow a coin "is a pen-
ny 300 years old. It was given to
toe when I was a little boy."
"Gee whist'1 ejaculated Benny.
"Just think of any one being able
to keep a pnny as long as that
without spending it I Harper'a
Casar. . .
. PENNY WISE
Chang. la tha Mpaer Vain Hablta of tna
People. ;.. t
Americans of the class who go to
Europe take note that in Germany a
coin is used called a pfennig and
Worth a quarter of a cent and that
in France centimes are in use which
are current at one-fifth of a cent
This practice of usiug money in such
minute divisions excites the con-
tempt of Amerioans which is how
ever returned by the Germans-and
Frettcb and is expressed freoly at the
foolish and wasteful Americans
who in their own country make no
use of any coin less tbfcn a cent.
And y6t thereisachangogradual-
ly extending over the United States
in what may be called the money
using habits of the people. There
was a time within the remembrance
of western and southern Americans'
before United States silver coin was
in general circulation in the Missis-
sippi valley when the picayune a
Spanish coin worth when in good
condition 6Ji cents and when worn
smooth S cents was the smallest
coin in use. From the picayune
came the word picayunish signify-
ing a small mean penurious na-
ture. In New England where the
people so divided the dollar as to
create many fractions and continued
to speak of shillings pence and half
pence long after our separation from
England a copper coinage was main-
tained and people contended for the
odd cents and even half cents due
them in making change from the
earliest ages but beginning west of
the Hudson there was until a com-
paratively repent period an absence
of copper coins nothing for sale at
less than 6 cents and a general dis-
position to speak lightly of even 5
cent transactions.
This has within the present gen-
eration greatly changed. The nickel
has come to stay and cents are ev-
erywhere in circulation. The gov-
ernment set an example in first re-
ducing letter postage to 3 cents and
later to 2 cents. The proud haughty
and lavish American found himself
compelled to deal in coins less than
5 cents. The cheapening of postage
led to the selling of many articles
of common use such as newspapers
at less than 5 conts and whatever
sacrifice of pride it may have cost
the average American found himself
buying these things at the reduced
prices and dealing in nickels and
pennies. It was a come down but
it came.
It should be remembered that
these so called dealings were not the
result of decreasing wealth in (the
country since the supply'of money
in the country has been steadily in-
creasing for many years but were
the effect of increasing sense. The
massive and yet acute intellect of
the American has grasped the faot
that there is no reason why he
should buy more of a given article
than be needs or pay for it twice as
much us is asked. Slowly the most
intelligent and best educated inhab-
itant of the earth has surrounded
the operation of buying a cent's
worth of something if that is what
he needs and paying a cent for it.
With the increased use of smaller
change has come the practice of buy-
ing and selling most things at once
unheard of prices. The word cheap
once unpopular with Americans is
quite common now. There is a high
price and a low price for everything
and well to do people are not afraid
or ashamed to pay the latter.
We have not arrived yet at the
pfennig and the centime but wo
may get there. We do not save
matches and candle ends and lumps
of sugar which we have once bought
and paid for as they do in the old
countries but there is no good rea-
son why we should not. - With all
our wisdom there is co just cause
why-we should not accumulate pon-
ny wisdom. It is hard to predict
whatthe United States might arrive
at if in addition to being the richest
country in the world it was in the
habits of its people the most sensi-
ble and saving. Kansas City Star.
Used K Judgment.
--'Here's an accounf of a man who
has been arrested for ' stealing
plays" said the man with the pa-
per. ' ' "; "-'"
... "For stealing plays 1" exclaimed
the man Who was smoking in as-
tonishment. V' '"
"That's what the paper Bays."
"Oh well the trouble with him
must have been that he didn't use
any judgment If he had stolen
some of the plays I've seen-they
wouldn't arrest him; they'd give
hira a vote of thanks." Chicago
Tc-t.
"... v.AL '
iVAl I A IVPT A D f" tobe without a good Ruddle and
' T kJJ wMIM I Ml rUnU atl harness; good because they i
t are atiroun;. uut'inm uu wuir m mu. i
k aau Harness oiauu iu mo lernwry. r irst -
I '"J ' I i -r'J
OUVin BAQBI.Pra.
. 0. HALL.
Capital $100000.
First National Bank.
-Vioita
. .DIRECTORS;
Oliver Bagby
B. F. Fortnor
E. B. Frayser
E. N. Rate I Iff
M. E- Mllford
W. H. Kornegay
W. A. Graham
J. O. Hall
W. E. Halsell
O W. Clark.
Vinita Livery k Boarding
m Midi Yf iA
IW. Ml
1 tSfin - 3
9
m Best turnouts in the city. Horses boarded by m
v-- -
L. C. Couch's Livery Stable
1 T'rnn.'.' Est ' Kay Tracks.
a yq J First-Class Turnouts at Reasonable Rates.
t 4 Worses Boarded by the Weekorrlonth
Telephone No. 6. Hearse in Connection.
BEST TRAINS
ST. LOUIS and
WIS AS CITY
-TO-
ST.
and Hortht
CHICAGO 2nd East
DENVER CULORISOc
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VestiijirtedSlecpsrs" ; '
fro. Chair Cars Dlaing Cars
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Did you Try D. Hicks'i
c eCroceries?
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it "i
naiiiim mu cost ana mosc popular saaates i
cifiss noetnaKr always m me atiop.
LEfi BARRETTi
i
Vlo Pres.
W. P. PHILLIPS Coi.v.r.
Surplus $18000.
J..LA ... . iaaj .i . i " '
Iod. Ter.
Does a 5af Gener&l Bai?kinr
Business. : . ". .
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' Was the first Natioiil B&oK
Chartered in tb CberoKe
Nation ani is the Gibral-
tar arrjono tb BanKs of.
T1)S IrjJiao Te'r'torv.
. . . . Stable.
First-class turnouts. Special attention to tran-
sient and regular feeders. Kates to traveling men.
Barn opposite Western hotel. Patronage solicited
Telephone No. 11.
J3STO. W. BYED Mgr.
W. B. RAINE5'
Livery
...Stable
has qrood ris:s at all times.
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Marrs, D. M. The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 167, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1899, newspaper, April 14, 1899; Vinita, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc773676/m1/3/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.